Dear Express Explained reader, Parliament is in session, and we published two in-depth pieces on questions of procedure that became controversial this week. On the first day of the Winter Session, 12 members of Rajya Sabha were suspended for the rest of the session for their alleged misconduct on the last day of the previous (Monsoon) Session. Chakshu Roy of PRS Legislative Research, who frequently writes explainers and commentary for The Indian Express, described what had happened then, the procedure for suspending a Member of Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha, and the continuing problem of unruly disruptions of the Houses of Parliament. Anisha Dutta reported this week on the removal from the final list of admitted questions, one by Congress Rajya Sabha MP K C Venugopal. Subsequently, Venugopal's BJP colleague in the House Subramanian Swamy posted on Twitter that his question had been disallowed “because of national interest”. Anisha then wrote a detailed and informative explainer on the rules for raising, admitting, and answering a question in Parliament, and the grounds on which they can be disallowed. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared “there is no UPA”, a reference to the disintegration of the Congress-led alliance that ruled the country for a decade before Narendra Modi became Prime Minister. Manoj CG and Ravish Tiwari told the story behind Mamata's statement: the circumstances of the birth of the UPA, its changing stakeholders, the problems of the Congress that impacted the alliance that it led, and the road ahead to 2024 from here onward. The government has repealed the three farm laws, but the farmers continue to insist on the legal guarantee for minimum support prices. The government has been firm in its rejection of their demand so far, but the farmers want to press home their advantage, encouraged by the fact that for a full year, the government had appeared equally unbending on the three laws as well. Harish Damodaran unpacked the demand for a law on MSPs — what it would cost the government, and how it might, if it were to take that decision, go about implementing it. Stay safe and stay aware. Keep reading The Indian Express Explained. Sincerely, Monojit (monojit.majumdar@expressindia.com) If you received this newsletter as a forward, you can subscribe to it here | Do read our Explained articles here | .png)
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