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Monday night presented the two sides of India’s parliamentarians: their commitment to work beyond the stipulated hours of the IPL 2020, RR vs C
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Derek O'Brien of Trinamool Congress and other Opposition members stage a protest over the suspension of eight Rajya Sabha members, farmers' problems
and other issues on Monday night. (PTI)
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The Lok Sabha, Parliament’s lower House, worked till 12.24 am Tuesday, clocking a new record qui
 
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of sitting beyond midnight for two consecutive evenings after it did so on Sunday as well. And sta
 
while the Lok Sabha was still buzzing with activity well past midnight, a group of eight
  lawmakers suspended for “gross disorderly conduct” on Monday organised the rst overnight india new
 
sit-in just outside the Parliament building near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
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The lawmakers were suspended after they stormed the Well of the House and charged towards
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Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh on Sunday, who was presiding over the proceedings MP
 
on Sunday, after two of the three farm bills were passed by voice vote. The opposition wanted
the bills to be referred to a select committee and the division of votes for their passage.

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Monday night, as alive as the day, presented the two sides of India’s parliamentarians: their
commitment to work beyond the stipulated hours of the House and also to assert their
democratic right to protest.

Also Read: Cong plans campaigns, month-long protest across India from Sept 24

In the Lok Sabha, Speaker Om Birla, 57, sat through the proceedings till the House was
adjourned on Tuesday morning to meet again in the afternoon. The House, which was
scheduled to meet for only four hours from 3 pm to 7 pm, cleared the Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill at 8.23 pm and at 11.38 pm approved the Epidemic
Diseases (Amendment) Bill.

Also Read: Oppn MPs hold rst-ever night protests near House

It did not stop. At 12. 22 am, the lower House cleared the Homoeopathy Central Council
(Amendment) Bill and the Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill jointly.

Marathon proceedings of Parliament are not unusual. In the 1970s and 1980s, budget
discussions often spilled over the next day. But of cials said that perhaps for the rst time,
bills were passed after midnight as the Speaker set a new standard in the performance of the
House.

Also Read: More chaos in House as 8 MPs suspended

The eight lawmakers, Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen; Aam Aadmi Party’s
Sanjay Singh; Congress’s Rajeev Satav, Syed Nasir Hussain and Ripun Borah; Communist Party
of India (Marxist)’s KK Ragesh and Elamaram Kareem, also took protests to a new level. They
stayed overnight in Parliament, slept under the open sky, and ate whatever snacks and packed
thalis made available to them. Harivansh on Tuesday morning offered tea to them.

Kareem, 67, is the eldest of the eight, and Rajeev Satav, 46, is the youngest. It was also Satav’s
birthday.

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