Rajya Sabha returns Manipur budget, GST bill
Rajya Sabha
on Monday returned the Manipur
Appropriation Bill
, 2025, and The Manipur
Goods and Services Tax
(Amendment) Bill, 2025 amid
opposition protests
over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue.
A brief debate on the Bills was also held.
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The Manipur Appropriation Bill authorises payment and appropriation of certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of Manipur for services of the financial year 2025-26.
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The Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which seeks to implement the decisions approved by the
GST Council
, would replace the Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025.
Opposition MPs, who took out a march to the
Election Commission
's headquarters on Monday, but were stopped midway and detained, reached the Upper House as the debate on the bills was being undertaken.
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Opposition MPs wanted Leader of Opposition
Mallikarjun Kharge
to be allowed to speak, and they raised slogans against the ongoing SIR exercise in Bihar. Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman
slammed the Opposition for opposing the
Manipur budget
.
She said while the Opposition speaks about Manipur, when its budget and GST bills are being taken up, they are not just protesting on some other issue, but also voting against it.
Opposition MPs, many of whom were in the Well of the House, were heard saying "no" as voting on the Bill was going on.
The two Bills, which were both Money Bills, were returned to the
Lok Sabha
through voice vote.
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