The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned on Tuesday following protests by Opposition MPs over the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
On the seventeenth day of the Monsoon Session, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday joined the INDIA bloc members in staging a protest in Parliament against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
Several Opposition MPs attended the protest wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “124 Not Out.” Prominent leaders, including Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule and DMK MP Kanimozhi, were seen holding onions as part of the demonstration.
The protest came a day after the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi, and other INDIA bloc MPs were detained by Delhi Police during a march from Parliament to the Election Commission’s office, in protest against alleged irregularities in Bihar’s voter list.
Meanwhile, BJP MP PP Chaudhary is set to move a motion seeking an extension of the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s tenure on the “One Nation, One Election Bill” until the first day of the last week of the Winter Session of Parliament in 2025.
According to the motion, JPC chairman PP Chaudhary, along with Congress MP Manish Tiwari, will move to extend the time for presenting the report of the Joint Committee on the “Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024” and the “Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024” up to the first day of the last week of the Winter Session in 2025.
Both bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2024 and referred to the Joint Committee of both Houses for further examination.
In legislative business, Union Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will move the Indian Ports Bill, 2025, for passage in the Lok Sabha.
The Bill seeks to consolidate the law relating to ports, promote integrated port development, facilitate ease of doing business, and ensure the optimum use of India’s coastline.
It also aims to establish and empower State Maritime Boards for the management of non-major ports, create a Maritime State Development Council for structured growth of the port sector, and provide measures for pollution control, disaster management, security, safety, navigation, and port data management.
It further outlines compliance with India’s international maritime obligations, conservation of ports, and adjudication mechanisms for port-related disputes.
Union Minister of Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy will also move a Bill to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.
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