Manipur, Feb. 13 -- Leishemba Sanajaoba had been taking maximum advantage of the zero hour in drawing the attention of the Central government on several other issues like development of Manipuri language as one of the classical languages of India, inclusion of Meetei Mayek in Indian currency notes, and inclusion of Meitei/Meetei in the Scheduled Tribe list etc. Now let us try to understand what really is zero hour in parliamentary proceedings.

Zero Hour is the time when Members of Parliament (MPs) can raise Issues of Urgent Public Importance. For raising matters during the Zero Hour, MPs must give the notice before 10 am to the Speaker/ Chairman on the day of the sitting. The notice must state the subject they wish to raise in the House....