On Tuesday, VP and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu broke away from another convention when he told lawmakers not to address the Chair as ‘His Excellency’, and to instead refer to him as ‘Honourable Chairman’ or ‘Vice President’.
On Tuesday, VP and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu broke away from another convention when he told lawmakers not to address the Chair as ‘His Excellency’, and to instead refer to him as ‘Honourable Chairman’ or ‘Vice President’.
He said: “I often find it embarrassing when the members and even others call the Vice President His Excellency... there is no need to use such phrases in future.”
He has in the past spoken up against colonial phrases. Presiding over the Upper House proceedings on the opening day of the winter session of Parliament, Naidu had said no one should use the word "I beg to" while laying papers on the table.
"Just say I raise to lay on the table" the listed papers, he said. "No need to beg... This is independent India."
Naidu, one of India’s more quoteworthy politicians has livened up the Rajya Sabha with his repartees. Once, on not finding Tiruchy Siva, a DMK MP from Tamil Nadu in RS, the VP quipped that Siva was missing and made a joke about Lord Shiva’s omnipresence as he remarked, that ‘Shiva was everywhere but not here in the house’.
Another funny repartee came when SP’s Naresh Agarwal tried to raise a point regarding the disqualification of two former JD(U) members of the House.
The Chairman did not agree with him saying there is no "point ... in your point of order". When all members of the Opposition had once rushed to the well he had remarked: "You want to do like this on the first day...All in Well not well...," he said and adjourned the House till noon.
Earlier, Agitated opposition members in Rajya Sabha went into a huddle with the Leader of Opposition after the House was adjourned till 2 pm within minutes of meeting for the day.
Leader of the House Arun Jaitley and several of his party colleagues too remained seated in the House for quite some time.
Generally, members leave the House soon after adjournment.
Soon after the House was adjourned by Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, members from the Congress, SP, TMC, AAP and the Left parties went into the huddle with Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad, apparently discussing floor strategy.
There was animated dissuasion among Azad, Derek O'Brien (TMC), Naresh Agarwal (SP), D Raja (CPI), Jairam Ramesh (Cong), and some other opposition members.
One of members was heard saying "boycott the House".
Later an opposition party MP said members were agitated after the adjournment as they have a lot of issues to raise.
Besides Finance Minister Jaitley, several other members from the Treasury benches too remained seated in the House post adjournment for several minutes.
Today's adjournment till 1400 hrs follows a similar adjournment yesterday.
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