RS releases names of MPs absent during voting on Citizenship Amendment Bill

The more intriguing part was the absence of two of the four Bahujan Samaj Party MPs

The Rajya Sabha secretariat on Thursday released the names of the 16 MPs who were absent at the time of voting on the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Upper House on Wednesday. These included all three from the Shiv Sena and two of the four of the Nationalist Congress Party. 

While NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel voted against the Bill, Majeed Memon and Vandana Chavan were absent. Others absent included BJP's Chunibhai Gohel and Anil Baluni, both of whom are unwell, as was Samajwadi Party's Beni Prasad Verma and independent Amar Singh. Trinamool Congress' K D Singh was also