No placards in house: Om Birla to MPs

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has urged floor leaders of various political parties to make sure that their MPs do not bring placards in the House.

The appeal was made during the business advisory committee meeting on Sunday, on the eve of the monsoon session of Parliament.

The business advisory committees of both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha met on Monday to finalise the agenda for the session.


A government source said 20-hour discussion time for budget will provide parties an opportunity to raise a range of issues, to which the finance minister will reply.

According to sources, Rajya Sabha is likely to discuss the appropriation and finance bills for nearly eight hours. A Congress MP said his party demanded short-duration discussions on the Agnipath scheme and NEET irregularities.