No lunch, dinner break; LS sits over 12 hrs, touches mid night

New Delhi, March 13 Unlike the normal proceedings, and in the row by inking another record in the history of Parliament, the Lok Sabha on Thursday conducted its business till late at night in a marathon sitting that crossed 12 hours while concluding debate on the demands for grants under the control of the Ministry of Railways for 2020-21, skipping lunch as well as dinner breaks.

In the first of this year's record longest proceeding, the lower House sat till 11.57 p.m. around six hours more to normal proceedings. Both the Houses of Parliament the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha normally work for seven hours each, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This is the third session of the 17th Lok Sabha in a row when the lower House registered a new record by concluding its business till late night sitting, involving debate on a major issue that is linked to the common people.

The discussion was related to Indian Railways the backbone of major transportation mode which ferry crores of people as well as goods from one state to another everyday and link both poor and rich from all sections of the society belonging to all creed and caste irrespectively.

Nearly 90 members participated in the debate which began at 1.15 p.m. The MPs from all parties raised railway issues including railway crossings

( With inputs from IANS )