Will Press Oppn to Join JPC on PM-CM Removal Bill: Birla

WITH some partners of INDIA bloc announcing to boycott the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) for examining three contentious bills seeking the removal of prime minister, chief ministers, central and state ministers if they remained in custody for 30 days, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said that he will make his best efforts to convince the opposition parties to nominate their members to the panel.

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Expressing grave concern over the washout of the monsoon session of the Parliament and rising disruption of the proceedings, Birla said, "Planned disruption of the House was never in our tradition and not healthy for a democracy."

This observation of the Lok Sabha speaker came during a media-briefing here after the two-day national conference of Chairpersons of Committees of Parliament and State Legislatures on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.