Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Tuesday after the passage of the Appropriation Bill 2026 amid Opposition protest over alleged theft of donations at the Ram Temple and other issues.
Soon after the House assembled at 2 pm after an earlier adjournment, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced a Bill to replace an ordinance which scrapped income tax with regard to foreign investment in government securities.
Opposition members, who had given notices to speak against introduction of the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, chose not to do so despite their names being called by the Chair. The Bill seeks to amend the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the Income-tax Act, 2025, and the Finance Act, 2027. Amid uproar, the Lok Sabha passed the Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 2026 by voice vote.
The Bill seeks to provide for the authorisation of appropriation of money out of the Consolidated Fund of India to meet the amounts spent on certain services during the financial year ended on March 31, 2023, in excess of the amounts granted for those services and for that year.
Earlier, when the Lok Sabha met for the day, Speaker Om Birla urged members to allow the Question Hour to function and appealed for their cooperation. Opposition members continued raising slogans like “Home Minister, answer us” amid their protest over the police action on student protesters during their march to Parliament on July 20. Birla said he had appealed to leaders of all parties at the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting to ensure the smooth functioning of Parliament.
Describing Parliament as the highest forum of democracy, he said it should be used to discuss and pass laws for the country and was not a platform for slogan-shouting or displaying placards.
Registration of Births and Deaths Bill passed amid protests by Oppn
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 by a voice vote amid continuous sloganeering by Opposition members, who repeatedly demanded the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the House and also raised slogans on the alleged theft of donations at Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The Bill seeks to amend provisions of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 to tighten the existing norms, mandating an order from a judicial magistrate (first class) for birth and death registrations made more than two years after the event.
Replying to the debate amid continued slogan-shouting by Opposition members, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said several members had explained the importance of the proposed legislation and urged the Opposition to understand its purpose.
He said the Modi government was committed to ensuring that every child born in the country was registered and that every death was recorded so that deceased persons did not continue as “ghost voters” benefiting parties pursuing “appeasement politics”. “The Congress cheated this country through birth and death registration,” he alleged.
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