The Lok Sabha has approved an extension for the Joint Parliamentary Committee to submit its report on the ‘One Nation, One Election’ bill until the first day of the last week of the 2025 winter session. The motion, moved by JPC chair PP Chaudhary, covers the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill and Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill.
Union Ministers Kiren Rijiju, Arjun Ram Meghwal, BJP MP Anurag Thakur and others in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session of Parliament. Pic/PTI
While the ruckus in the Lok Sabha continued on Tuesday, the lower house of the parliament accepted a motion to extend the tenure for the Joint Parliamentary Committee's report on the 'One Nation, One Election Bill'.
As reported by the news agency ANI, the extension of tenure will allow the committee to submit its findings by the first day of the last week of the Winter Session in 2025.
The motion in the lower house of the Parliament was moved by PP Chaudhary, who is the Chairman of the One Nation, One Election Panel. Chaudhary requested the House to allow the JPC more time to present the report on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024.
PP Chaudhary asserted that "This House does extend time for the presentation of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, up to the first day of the last week of the Winter Session, 2025."
The bill, which was allegedly intended to centralise all the elections in the country, was introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2024. Furthermore, the bills were sent to the Joint Committee of both houses for further examination.
Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday, during the Lok Sabha proceedings, announced that a three-member panel has been constituted to investigate allegations against High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.
The members of the committee include Justice Amit Kumar, Justice Maninder Mohan Srivastava and B B Acharya, the Lok Sabha Speaker announced.
Om Birla, acting on the impeachment motion moved in the Lok Sabha, was quite firm. The speaker of the house accepted the motion, which was signed by 146 MPs, for the impeachment of Justice Yashwant Verma.
Earlier on August 7, the Supreme Court formed an in-house inquiry procedure, which led to a recommendation to remove Justice Yashwant Varma. Justice Varma, an Allahabad High Court judge in whose residential premises burnt currency was found after a fire, has legal sanction.
The apex court dismissed a plea filed by Justice Varma challenging the in-house inquiry panel's report and the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna's recommendation to initiate impeachment proceedings against him in the case of the fire incident that led to the recovery of burnt unaccounted cash at his official residence in the national capital when he was a sitting judge of the Delhi High Court.
(With inputs from ANI)
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