Rajya Sabha

Samirul Islam’s Zero Hour mention on including the Kurmali, Rajbanshi and Kamtapuri languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution

Sagarika Ghose’s Zero Hour mention on the harassment of Bengali-speaking migrant workers who are bona fide citizens of the country

Md Nadimul Haque’s Zero Hour mention on the urgent need to strengthen the Right to Information Act

Derek O’Brien’s suggestion to the Chair to increase the number of selected Zero Hour mentions in the ballot from 15 to 18

Ritabrata Banerjee’s speech during the discussion on the 150th anniversary of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’

Sukhendu Sekhar Ray’s speech during the discussion on the 150th anniversary of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’

Mausam Bennazir Noor’s supplementary question on the Union government’s plans to increase production of speciality fertilisers as 95% is imported from China

Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien’s Point of Order on his party’s MP’s right to include the Pahalgam and New Delhi blasts, and the Home Ministry in his speech as The Health Security Se National Security Cess Bill has the words ‘National Security’ in it

Saket Gokhale’s speech on The Health Security Se National Security Cess Bill 2025, comparing Swasthya Sathi and Ayushman Bharat

Sagarika Ghose’s Supplementary Questions on Union government’s plans for providing affordable housing for migrant labour and 47% PM Awas Yojana houses remaining unoccupied

Mamata Thakur’s Supplementary Question on the Union government’s plans regarding Matua refugees and illegally expelling Hindu citizens in the name of implementing SIR

Ritabrata Banerjee’s Zero Hour mention on making Poila Baisakh the foundation day of Bengal

Rajya Sabha MP Md Nadimul Haque’s Zero Hour mention on the Finance Minister’s misleading figures on companies in Bengal and the need for improving youth skilling schemes

Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik’s Zero Hour mention on the lack of any initiative by the Ministry of Railways, despite assurances, to construct railway overbridges in Alipurduar district

Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien’s Point of Order on the democratic right of every Member to raise a Point of Order, and the Minister not laying the topic of electoral reforms on the floor of the house despite being decided in the BAC meeting

Rajya Sabha MP Mohammed Nadimul Haque’s Special Mention on the need to improve India’s manufacturing sector

Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose’s speech on The Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025

Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray’s Point of Order on the rule that a Member, while speaking, should not make allegations against another Member of the House

Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev’s speech on the Statutory Resolution on adopting the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 202 in the state of Manipur

Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale’s supplementary questions on the need for the government to publish an ethical code of conduct for NCEL and the reason the 11,500 state cooperatives are not represented on the board of NCEL

Rajya Sabha Leader Derek O’Brien’s intervention, defending every word Dola Sen spoke on Centre depriving Bengal of funds

Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen’s speech during Zero Hour on the renaming of Raj Bhavan in Bengal to Lok Bhavan

Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien’s Point of Order, quoting Rule 176, urging a discussion on SIR as demanded by 14 Opposition parties because people are dying due to suicides

Intervention by Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien, requesting the Chair to ask the government to urgently initiate a discussion on electoral reforms

MP Derek O’Brien, Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha, welcoming the new Chairman of Rajya Sabh