Rajya Sabha adjourns sine die

New Delhi, Dec 20: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die on Friday after the House adopted a motion to nominated 12 members to the joint committee of Parliament on simultaneous polls.

When the House met this morning, it witnessed protests by opposition members and was adjourned amid the din.

The Chairman also held a meeting with Leader of the House J P Nadda and Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge besides leaders of various opposition parties in a bid to end the impasse in the House.

When the House again met at 12 noon, the Chairman asked Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to move a motion for nominating members of the upper house to the joint committee of Parliament to examine the bills related to ‘one nation, one election’.

The motion was adopted with a voice vote to nominate 12 members of the Rajya Sabha to the joint committee on simultaneous polls.

The Chairman then made his concluding remarks, saying this session’s productivity stood at a mere 40.03 percent with just 43 hours and 27 minutes of effective functioning.

“As Parliamentarians we are drawing severe criticism from the people of India and rightfully so. These persistent disruptions are steadily eroding public trust in our democratic institutions,” he noted.

“It is time to choose between meaningful debate and destructive disruptions,” he said before adjourning the House sine die. (PTI)

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