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  • lok sabha speaker: Prerna Sthal: Statues shifted to other places before also, says Om Birla

    Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday inaugurated the newlyconstructed ‘Prerna Sthal’ in the Parliament complex, consisting of statues of leaders and freedom fighters.

    Prerna Sthal was constructed to install the statues of leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, at one place inside the Parliament House Complex.

    For building the Prerna Sthal, the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, which was near the new Parliament building has been shifted to another place inside the Parliament complex. That spot where the Gandhi statue was moved was used by the opposition MPs to protest against the government. Sharing the details of the project, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said an action plan has been made to make the life stories and messages of these great Indians available to visitors through new technology so that they could get inspiration from them. Birla said that even before, during the construction work of the new Parliament Building, the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Motilal Nehru and Chaudhary Devi Lal were shifted to other places in the complex.

    Statues of freedom fighters and national icons have been relocated to a new enclosure on its premises, Prerna Sthal, following discussions with different stakeholders, Birla said. Therefore, with the aim of installing these statues in one place inside the Parliament House Complex, the Prerna Sthal has been constructed so that dignitaries and other visitors coming to the Parliament House Complex could conveniently see and pay tribute to these statues in one place.

    Inaugurating the Prerna Sthal, Dhankhar said he got inspiration by coming to this place and it isn’t “any less than a religious place” for all Indians.

  • Ahead of President’s Budget Session Address, Rajya Sabha Chairman Revokes Suspension Of 11 Opposition MPs.

    Hours after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the suspension of 11 opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha would be revoked on the government’s request, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar revoked their suspension allowing them to attend the Budget session. The Rajya Sabha Privileges Committee held 11 suspended opposition MPs guilty of breach of privilege and contempt of the Council of States.

    The committee submitted the report to Dhankhar, acknowledging the circumstances that the suspended members would be unable to participate in the special address by President Droupadi Murmu to both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first address in the new Parliament building. In its report, submitted to the Rajya Sabha chairman a day before the session commences on Wednesday, the committee also proposed considering the duration of suspension already served by the members as an adequate penalty for the violation.

    The MPs are Jebi Mather Hisham, L Hanumanthaiah, Neeraj Dangi, Rajmani Patel, Kumar Ketkar, GC Chandrashekhar, Binoy Viswam, Santhosh Kumar P, M Mohamed Abdulla, John Brittas and AA Rahim. The committee usually submits its recommendations to the House. The sources said the chairman invoked the authority vested in him under the rules of procedure to revoke their suspension enabling the members to attend the special address by the president.

    The matter of 11 MPs suspended by the chairman during the Winter session of Parliament was referred to the Privileges Committee.