Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev’s speech on The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025

Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale’s Point of Order under Rule 29 on the urgent need for adequate time for discussion to be allocated on the Manipur issue and the duplication of EPIC voter identity cards, and not just concentrate on The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, considering the short time left before the Budget Session concludes on April 4

Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev’s Zero Hour mention on the concern over the delay in disbursement of pensionary benefits to government employees, and demanding the government remove the alleged discrimination that the amended Civil Service Pension Rules allows it to make by classifying the amounts retirees will get based on their date of retirement

Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Banerjee’s speech on The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025

Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Banerjee’s Zero Hour mention on the demand for strict action against Provident Fund defaulters from the private sector, specially mentioning some jute mill and tea garden owners in Bengal whose cases are being delayed by the additional central PF commissioner in charge of the state despite the state’s labour department writing to the commissioner to expedite the cases to bring justice to the employees

Rajya Sabha MP Md Nadimul Haque’s Zero Hour mention on the demand to confer Bharat Ratna on Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, recalling the alleged disrespect shown to her in 2007 by the then Gujarat government under Narendra Modi by not honouring her, despite her hailing from that state, when the then UPA government at the centre did so (later also conferring on her the Padma Bhushan), after her first space sojourn

Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Banerjee’s supplementaries to his starred question on sector-wise break-up of foreign portfolio investor outflows and the outflows’ correlation to the depreciation of the rupee, and the policy measures the government has explored to stabilise our currency

Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen’s Point of Order under Rule 267, asking for the Chair’s ruling on the notice given under the rule on Friday for a discussion on the issue of duplication of EPIC voter ID cards