June 7, 2017
Trinamool Congress’ Lok Sabha MPs complete three years in the 16th Lok Sabha
June 5 was the third anniversary of the All India Trinamool Congress’ Members of Parliament (MP) taking oath for the 16th Lok Sabha. It has been three eventful years (since June 5, 2014) for the party in Parliament. Speeches by the party’s MPs have had a major impact on national politics. The strategies adopted, and debates participated in, in Parliament, by the MPs have left a lasting impression on parliamentary politics in this largest democracy in the world.
Now Trinamool Congress is the fourth largest party in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
Here are a few of the important speeches that Trinamool Congress MPs have given over the last three years:
LOK SABHA
August 14, 2014: Sugata Bose on the need for a mechanism to tackle the rising incidents of communal violence in the country
May 5, 2015: Kalyan Banerjee on the GST Bill
February 24, 2016: Sugata Bose on the prevalent situation in universities in the country
March 8, 2016: Satabdi Roy on International Women’s Day
February 7, 2017: Saugata Roy speaks on The Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Bill, 2017
March 9, 2017: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016
April 11, 2017: Ratna De Nag on The HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2017
RAJYA SABHA
November 25, 2014: Debabrata Bandyopadhyay on The Labour Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2014
August 13, 2014: Derek O’Brien on the working of the Ministry of Women and Child Development
May 6, 2015: Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on The Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 (Land Boundary Agreement)
November 24, 2016: Derek O’Brien on demonetisation
April 5, 2017: Derek O’Brien on the GST Bill
