First time MP and actress Kangana Ranaut and fourth-term MP and former Union minister Anurag Singh Thakur took oaths as members of the 18th Lok Sabha.
In the first sitting of the House, Opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi were seen holding up copies of the Constitution book as Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked up to take oath.
Talking about the display in Parliament, Rahul said it was done to show that the attack by “the PM and Amit Shah on the Constitution is not acceptable to us, we will not let this happen”. Certainly in bad taste on the first day of any new Parliament session after general elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "The people of the country have given us an opportunity for the third time. This is a great victory, a grand victory. Our responsibility increased threefold...So, I assure the countrymen that in our third tenure, we will work three times harder and we will get three-time results".
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The first session of new Parliament began on Monday with PM Modi and other members taking oath as newly elected MPs of Lok Sabha.
The anointment of BJP leader B Mahtab as pro tem Speaker sparked off controversy with Congress questioning why 8 term member Suresh was denied the opportunity.
Nagaland MP Supongmeren may take oath as MP on Tuesday
Stage set for a 'stormy' maiden Session of New Parliament
New Delhi
The maiden Parliament session post the big battle of 2024 is likely to be stormy.
Stage is set for the first day agenda on Monday, June 24.
Sources said 280 newly-elected MPs, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers,
will take oath on Monday, while 264 other parliamentarians will take oath on Tuesday, June 25.
By convention the MPs from different states will take the oath in alphabetical order.
This means that newly-elected parliamentarians from Assam will take oath first and those
from West Bengal may be the last to do so.
Lone Nagaland MP Supongmeren Jamir may take oath on the second day, June 25th.
The election to the post of Lok Sabha Speaker will take place on June 26 and the Prime Minister will introduce his council of ministers to the House soon after.
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The President is scheduled to address the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on June 27.
The debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address will begin on June 28. The Prime Minister is expected to respond to the debate on July 2 or 3.
Both the Houses are expected to go into a brief recess and re-assemble on July 22 for the presentation of the Union Budget.
The session is certainly expected to be stormy.
Even the conventional and routine anointment of BJP MP B Mahtab as pro tem Speaker, has run into controversy with the Congress, Left and other parties raising the Dalit bogey and stating that Congress MP K Suresh deserved to be given the honour as he has won for 8th term while Mahtab is only a seven term lawmaker.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has defended the government decision saying “as per the Westminster system”, the MP who has the longest-serving “uninterrupted tenure” is chosen for the position.
The NEET exam paper leak row and violence in Manipur are likely to figure prominently during the debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's address.
With their relative success in the just concluded parliamentary polls, the opposition will be in a more aggressive mood. The BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself will be on back foot as the party's number came down below 272 mark. In fact, the saffron party took a hit of as many as 63 seats from its tally in 2019.
In contrast, the Congress tally has almost doubled to 99 from a modest 52 it had polled in 2019.
The Congress ecosystem is already talking about Brand Rahul's rise and so-called revival of the
grand old party and on the other hand the decline in the equity vis-a-vis Brand Modi.
For BJP, the 2024 mandate may be an emotional outcome and also motivated by caste, religion and
local issues. This was an accidental mandate and they hope nothing much has changed on
ground vis-a-vis the popularity of Modi himself.
In the process, important things to keep a watch will be the debate on Motion of Thanks to
the President's address, the Budget 2024 and at a later stage performance of both BJP and
Congress and the respective alliances in three state polls - Jharkhand, Haryana and Maharashtra due by October 2024.
Of course by September 30, the centre and the Election Commission are duty bound to hold polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The process is on both at the political and administrative levels.
"We are making every possible effort to remove all distances of J&K
whether of the heart or of Delhi (Dil ya Dilli)," the PM has said.
In Manipur, the all-women body, the Khwairamband Ima Keithel Coordinating
Committee for Peace has called for holding urgent discussions on the prevailing crisis in Manipur
during the upcoming Parliament session.
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Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang says, "I have come here to congratulate the Prime Minister on behalf of the entire Sikkim, of all people of Sikkim because he is one such Prime Minister due to whom the country has made a lot of progress. He has become the PM for the third time and I came to congratulate him."
On changes in the northeast in last 10 years, he says, "There has been a great change. There has been a transformation in the northeastern states after 2014. So, I would like to thank the PM and the entire Central Government...Under the guidance of PM Modi, all 8 northeastern states are connected to each other as well as to neighbouring countries...On 16th May 2025, Sikkim is completing 50 years and it is a golden occasion so I have invited PM on the occasion. He has accepted the invitation..."
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