On the seventeenth day of the Monsoon Session, top INDIA bloc leaders, including Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge, joined Opposition MPs in a protest inside Parliament over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue.
Several MPs arrived wearing white T-shirts with the slogan ‘124 Not Out’. Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule and DMK MP Kanimozhi were among those holding onions as part of the demonstration.
The protest follows Monday’s incident when Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi, and other INDIA bloc members were detained by Delhi Police during a march from Parliament to the Election Commission office over alleged electoral irregularities in Bihar.
Meanwhile, BJP MP PP Chaudhary is set to move a motion to extend 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, 2025. The motion will be moved jointly by Chaudhary and Congress MP Manish Tiwari.
The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024—introduced in December 2024—are under examination by the Joint Committee of both Houses.
Additionally, Union Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will seek Lok Sabha’s approval for the Indian Ports Bill, 2025, aimed at consolidating port laws, promoting integrated port development, and strengthening maritime governance.
Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy is also scheduled to introduce a bill amending the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.
