Opposition protests over SIR, disrupts Lok Sabha work
INDIA bloc
floor leaders' meeting on Tuesday decided to broad-base the issues to be taken up in
Parliament
this week rather than sticking to the demand for an "immediate discussion" on the Pahalgam-Operation Sindoor issues which, they think, the government is disinclined to hold before PM Modi returns from his foreign tours next week. Therefore, the meeting chose to focus on poll-bound Bihar's SIR issue on Tuesday, which
RJD
particularly wanted to raise in the Houses. This led to
Opposition protests
and washout of the entire morning session in the
Lok Sabha
with two forced adjournments after 11 am and 12 noon even as
Opposition
MPs staged a protest at the main entrance of Parliament House by denouncing the SIR.
At the Opposition bloc's floor leaders' meeting,
Rahul Gandhi
is learnt to have promised them to soon give a presentation on how the electoral process was "manipulated" in Maharashtra and how the same can happen in Bihar through SIR.
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After the meeting,
Congress
leader KC Venugopal spelt out the issues the Opposition bloc wanted to raise in the Houses with a demand that the PM be present to respond to each of the issues.
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At the Opposition protest site against SIR, RJD MP Manoj Jha said: "If, in a democracy, the voter is not safe, then democracy is not safe."
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