New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will lead the Indian parliamentary delegation to the 10th BRICS Parliamentary Forum to be held in the Russian city of St Petersburg from Thursday. The delegation will include Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, Rajya Sabha member Shambhu Sharan Patel, Lok Sabha Secretary General Utpal Kumar Singh, and Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Modi. The theme of the 10th BRICS Parliamentary Forum is the role of parliaments in strengthening multilateralism for equitable global development and security.

Presiding officers of the parliaments of the BRICS countries and invited countries Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Tulia Aksen will also attend the meeting. Birla and Harivansh are scheduled to address the plenary session on two sub-themes each. The Lok Sabha Speaker will also meet members of the Indian diaspora in Moscow.

'Planned deadlocks' will not solve people's problems: Lok Sabha Speaker Birla

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday said "planned deadlocks" or sloganeering in legislatures cannot solve people's problems and dialogue between the Opposition and ruling parties is the need of the hour. He also said his endeavor in his second term as Speaker would be to increase people's trust in Parliament, and he expected high-level discussions from members of all parties in the 18th Lok Sabha.

Om Birla interacted with local public representatives at an event in Indore Municipal Corporation earlier in the day. He said that I want the House of Indore Corporation to become a model for other municipalities, municipal councils, and panchayats with high-quality dialogues and innovations, because planned deadlock or shouting slogans near the dais of the House will not solve the problems.