Rajya Sabha passed the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers (Amendment) Bill 2020 on Friday two days after it passed the Salaries, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Bill 2020. Both the bills seek to reduce the salaries of MPs and Ministers by 30%.
“To control this pandemic and provide relief the Centre is working on all angles. Under this amendment, there will be a deduction of 30% in the salaries and allowances of MPs and Ministers from April 1, 2020 to March 2021,” Minister of State (MoS) Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said in Rajya Sabha. He also said that he was moving the bill on behalf of Union Minister Amit Shah.
Congress MP Rajeev Satav even asked MPs and Ministers to consider taking a token salary of Re 1 and urged Centre to continue the deduction for a longer period of time.
