Lok Sabha to take up no-confidence motion against Speaker Om Birla on March 9

The debate and voting on the no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will be taken up on March 9, The New Indian Express quoted Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju as saying on Sunday.

The minister said that it is a rule to take up such a motion on the first day after the House reconvenes.

The second part of the Budget Session of Parliament is scheduled from March 9 to April 2. The session began on January 28 and went into recess on Thursday.

Rijiju said that the government intends to proceed with its legislative agenda once the motion against the speaker has been disposed of.

He described the upcoming sittings of the House as “interesting”, stating that several important legislations would be introduced for debate and passage.

“We will bring some important bills, including one critical bill,” the newspaper quoted him as saying. “We will not disclose now as to what the bill is, but we will bring up one very important business in the second part. We will pass all these bills.”

He was also quoted as saying that if Opposition parties continued protests in way similar to that seen during the first part of the session, “we will go for the guillotine”.

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