Leaders meet today to decide on RS sitting

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 24

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has called a meeting of House leaders tomorrow morning to decide on whether to hold a sitting tomorrow given the passing away of a sitting member of the House Madan Lal Saini of the BJP in AIIMS here today.

In the event of the death of a sitting MP, the convention is to adjourn the House after obituary reference by the chair.

There has been a recent break from convention though when on February 1, 2017, then Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan after making an obituary reference to sitting MP E Ahamad, who died the same morning, cited the government’s constitutional duties to carry on with the scheduled presentation of the Union Budget. LS was adjourned on February 2, 2017 to show respects to Ahamad.

It remains to be seen if the Rajya Sabha tomorrow takes a call to run the House despite the death of sitting BJP member Saini, who was chief of the party’s Rajasthan unit.