Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) leader and MLA Pallavi Patel announced her decision not to cast her vote in the Rajya Sabha polls against the Samajwadi Party s choice of candidates, Jaya Bachchan and Alok Ranjan. Patel cited dissatisfaction with the candidates not being part of the "picchde, Dalit, and alpsankhyak" (backward, Dalit, and minority) category, referred to by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav as PDA.
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged the government to ensure proper scrutiny of legislative bills by parliamentary panels, emphasizing the need to avoid enacting laws in haste. Kharge, in his farewell speech to retiring Rajya Sabha members, criticized the passing of bills without adequate discussion. He stressed that parliamentary committees should scrutinize bills to allow proper examination and corrections, preventing the need for post-enactment amendments.
The six-year term of three Rajya Sabha MPs from Delhi is ending this month. The three members - Sanjay Singh, Sushil Kumar Gupta and Narain Dass Gupta - will be retiring on January 27.