The final four days of the 2025 Parliament Budget Session are set to be stormy, as the Union government pushes to debate the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Bill in the House this week, facing fierce resistance from opposition parties.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra accused the Union government on Friday of “bleeding the Constitution from a thousand cuts” and said it is crystal clear that the political executive has “systematically eroded democracy” over the last 10 years.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday approved a resolution extending the term of the Joint Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, until the last day of the Budget session in 2025. This decision came during the third day of the Winter Session of Parliament, amidst ongoing opposition protests on various issues.
Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Chandra Pawar) MP Supriya Sule on the opening day of the monsoon session of the parliament reiterated her protest against Sansad TV's new practice of superimposing Hindi voiceovers on speeches made in English and regional languages.
Leaders of the Opposition INDIA alliance, including Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, staged a protest in Parliament premises on Monday. The Opposition MPs holding copies of the Constitution in their hands protested in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament.