Rajya Sabha report for action against Opposition MPs; CPI (M) member Elamaram Kareem complains of assault.
The political battles should not be fought on the “table of the House”, Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu said in an informal interaction on Friday, two-days after the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021 was passed in Rajya Sabha amid fierce protests from the Opposition who also had a tussle with a strong contingent of marshals deployed in the chamber.
On August 10, when the Rajya Sabha took up a discussion on “the agricultural problems and solutions”, some Opposition members, demanding a discussion on the Pegasus cyberattack and a repeal of the farm laws, had clambered onto the reporter’s table which is placed right in front of the Chair. On August 11 again, when the government, despite demands from a united Opposition to send the Insurance Bill to a select committee, pushed to pass the legislation, similar…