Lata Mangeshkar the Parliamentarian: Looking back at legendary singer's years as a legislator
India Today
Lata Mangeshkar, who breathed her last on Sunday, was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament in November 1999 and completed her tenure on November 21, 2005.
Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar, who was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, might not have been an active parliamentarian, but had voted in favour of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, which was passed in a rare joint session of Parliament in 2002.
Mangeshkar, who breathed her last on Sunday, was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament in November 1999 and completed her tenure on November 21, 2005.
She rarely attended the Rajya Sabha proceedings and believed that she was a misfit in Parliament.
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However, the then Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan had ensured the attendance of the maximum number of members in the Rajya Sabha when the House took up voting on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill to replace the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance on March 21, 2002.
The then NDA government, led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, did not enjoy a majority in the Upper House and the bill was defeated with 98 members, including Mangeshkar, voting in favour and 113 voting against it.
A joint session of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha was then convened in the Central Hall of Parliament on March 26, 2002, which passed the Prevention of Terrorism Bill with 425 members voting in favour and 296 voting against it.
