The Constitution of India and the rules book of the Rajya Sabha, “serve as the guiding framework — the Lakshman Rekha — for parliamentary discourse”, Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan told floor leaders of the Rajya Sabha from across parties during his first official meeting on Tuesday.

The meeting, which was held almost a month after the V-P assumed office, was attended by Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha JP Nadda, Congress’s Pramod Tewari and Jairam Ramesh, Samajwadi Party ’s Ram Gopal Yadav, TMC’s Sagarika Ghose and CPI(M)’s John Brittas among others.

In his opening statement, Radhakrishnan emphasised the importance of ensuring that the Upper House functions with the dignity, discipline, and decorum it deserves. He said that dialogue, deliberation, debate, and discussion are the

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