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The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die on Saturday, marking the conclusion of the Budget session of Parliament before the Lok Sabha elections later this year.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said the 17 Lok Sabha passed 222 bills in the last five years. On the last day of the session, the House discussed the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, following which a resolution was passed.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju told ANI, “This was the last day of the 17th Lok Sabha today. The PM spoke well for everyone. He has also shown us a path as to what should be the mindset when we move towards the 18th Lok Sabha. It was an emotional moment it was the last day…It was a good atmosphere…”
In his concluding remarks, Speaker Om Birla said he treated the treasury and the opposition benches as equal. He said that he took certain harsh decisions to maintain the dignity of the House.
Birla then adjourned the House sine die (for an indefinite period). The Budget session, the last before the Lok Sabha elections due in April-May, began on January 31.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said in the “short but important session”, the House sat for nine days dealing with 116 issues of public importance alongside answering 90 starred and 960 unstarred questions of parliamentarians.
“Overall productivity during the session stood at an impressive figure of 137 per cent,” he said.
Bharat is making a phenomenal progress in all walks of life and is in an era of immense possibilities, he said, urging members to contribute to continuous incremental rise of the country.
“We have come to close of 263rd session of Rajya Sabha. It is the last session before we go for the general election, a true festival of democracy in the mother of democracy,” he said.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi while addressing a press conference after the conclusion of the last session of the 17th Lok Sabha said , “Under the leadership of PM Modi, we have created a record – the highest number of redundant, obsolete laws are being scrapped. 1562 old and redundant laws have been repealed so far from 2014…”
