Pass juvenile justice bill: Nirbhaya’s parents

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With only 3 sittings left this week for the current Winter session of Parliament and hardly any legislative business transacted in Rajya Sabha so far, the All Party meeting convened by the Chairman of Rajya Sabha raised the prospects of passage of some of the pending Bills in the Upper House during the remainder of this session, said Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. He (juvenile) would not have been released if this bill had passed six months ago. “Our struggle is to get this bill passed”, she said, adding that she will like to go to Rajya Sabha, if a pass is arranged, to see it getting passed.

Opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad alleged that the Centre is playing mischief to divert attention from the DDCA scam. “After the Rajya Sabha passes it, it would have to be sent to the Lok Sabha as there have been amendments”.

“Now the bill should be passed today”.

They also include an additional Rs. 952 crore towards loan to Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd, and Rs. 344 crore for financial relief to ITI Ltd. It also has provision for an additional Rs. 300 crore for Polavaram Irrigation Project in terms of support under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.

The House passed a Bill to prevent atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and two Appropriation Bills unanimously without any discussions on Monday.

Derek O’ Brien of the Trinamool Congress demanded that public sentiment be heeded. “For the Juvenile Justice Bill, the people are waiting outside”.

Instead of maintaining that by disrupting Parliament they are only doing what the BJP earlier did, the Congress MPs could live up to their credo that their leaders belong to a family which was in the forefront of the freedom struggle and which gave the country three prime ministers, two of whom were assassinated.

Let us work five years and then you ask for the results he said. Much more important than all this is the Juvenile Justice Bill.

Azad, however, said: “If the government is so keen they should have listed it today.

The residents of this nation are asking that Parliament must be accountable and dedicated in passing the Bill”, Sitharaman informed ANI right here. The passage of this Bill will be a tribute to Nirbhaya.

Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi held informal parleys with opposition leaders on the Bill.

“Tomorrow as Congress agreed, I hope this Bill will come up for discussion”.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal’s plea towards the discharge of the juvenile convict within the Nirbhaya gangrape case.