Monsoon session | Lok Sabha adjourned to meet again on 5th August, at 11:00 am.

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Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Tuesday amid massive slogan shouting by Opposition parties over the alleged theft of Ayodhya Ram Temple donations.

As soon as the House convened at 12 noon, after getting adjourned minutes after it had met at 11 am, Chairman C P Radhakrishnan took up the Question Hour. Opposition parties, however, started raising the issue of alleged donation theft and indulged in slogan shouting. Some of the Opposition members also sought the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the House.

"You are not interested in running the House," Radhakrishnan told the protesting members.

DMK's Tiruchi Siva sought to raise the arrest of Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin, but the Chairman said this was a state issue and cannot be raised in the House.

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Congress MP Pawan Khera on Tuesday demanded that the Union Home Minister make a statement in Parliament over the recent developments involving students, alleging that the government was avoiding discussion on the issue.

"...The Home Minister considers it a very big deal to come to the House and give a statement on what has happened or is happening to the coming generations of this country... Whether it's stealing donations or stealing the future of the youth, both are important issues. If you want to run the House, then come and address this," Khera told ANI.

CPI(M) MP John Brittas also questioned the absence of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister from Parliament.

"We don't understand why the Prime Minister and the Home Minister do not come to the Parliament... The opposition has been demanding only a statement from the Home Minister. So many things happened in the capital city, with police being accused of using heinous methods in crashing the students. We just wanted to have a statement from the Home Minister as to what has actually happened and the steps he has taken," Brittas said.

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#WATCH | Delhi: DMK MPs stage a protest at Parliament's Makar Dwar over the Cauvery water issue. pic.twitter.com/3pb4s6J6sr

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#WATCH | Delhi: Opposition MPs, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others, stage a protest over the issue of the alleged Ram Mandir donation embezzlement case. pic.twitter.com/zLS5fpnL7p

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Delhi: Congress President and LoP Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge chairs a meeting of INDIA bloc floor leaders at the Parliament House.
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Opposition MPs, including Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, protested in Parliament House complex on Tuesday against the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya and "police excesses" against student protesters.

Carrying placards against the government, MPs protested in front of the Makar Dwar of Parliament with slogans such as 'chhanda chor, gaddi chor' and 'Amit Shah jawaab do' raised.

The MPs also kept donation boxes at the spot to symbolise the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple and lined up around them to raise slogans against the government. Some MPs also put cash in the box to symbolise the donations made and "theft" that took place later.

Besides Priyanka Gandhi, SP's Dimple Yadav and Dharmendra Yadav, TMC's Sagarika Ghose, RJD's Sanjay Yadav and Manoj Jha, RSP's NK Premchandran, among others, participated in the protest.

The protesting MPs lined up behind a big banner that read 'Why Amit Shah absent from Parliament', and raised slogans against the Home Minister.

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The BJP on Tuesday accused the Congress and its INDIA bloc allies of deliberately disrupting the Monsoon Session of Parliament, alleging that their conduct has prevented discussions on key Bills and exposed the Opposition's "double standards" on issues such as paper leaks and student protests.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, BJP national spokesperson and Lok Sabha MP Sambit Patra alleged that despite crores of rupees being spent on every session of Parliament, Question Hour and Zero Hour have been repeatedly disrupted, depriving MPs of an opportunity to raise issues concerning their constituencies.

"The way the 2026 Monsoon Session of Parliament is progressing, and the manner in which the Congress party, along with some of its alliance partners, is disrupting the session, is a matter of serious concern. Crores of rupees are spent on every session of Parliament.

"However, ever since the session began, Question Hour has not taken place in Parliament. Disruptions are being created during Zero Hour as well," Patra told reporters.

"Hardly any Bill is being discussed. The reason behind this is the conduct of the Congress party and some of its INDIA alliance partners. I am genuinely surprised by their double standards," he said, adding that the Opposition might not allow Parliament to function on Tuesday as well.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP President Nitin Nabin and other NDA leaders attend the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Parliamentary Party Meeting, ‘Mangal Milan,’ at the G.M.C. Balayogi Auditorium, Parliament… pic.twitter.com/Y3KvJGp40n

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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to introduce the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, according to the revised List of Business issued by the House.

The Bill seeks to further amend the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the Income-tax Act, 2025, and the Finance Act, 2026. Sitharaman will move for leave to introduce the legislation and subsequently introduce the Bill in the House.

The Finance Minister will also lay on the Table an explanatory statement, in Hindi and English, outlining the reasons for immediate legislation through the promulgation of the Income-tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026 (No. 2 of 2026).

As part of the legislative business, Sitharaman will move for leave to introduce the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which seeks to amend the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the Income-tax Act, 2025, and the Finance Act, 2026. She will also lay an explanatory statement outlining the reasons for promulgating the Income-tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026 (No. 2 of 2026).

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Congress MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday submitted an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha, seeking the suspension of Question Hour, Zero Hour, and all other listed business of the day to discuss the need for a new anti-defection law to curb what he termed "mass political defections" driven by opportunism.

In his notice addressed to the Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha, Tewari stated that he intended to move a motion for the adjournment of the House's business to discuss "a definite matter of urgent public importance."

"I move that this House do suspend Question Hour, Zero Hour, and all other listed business of the day to discuss the contours of a new Anti-Defection Law that proscribes Mass Political Defections driven by opportunism and bereft of any genuine ideological or policy differences while simultaneously providing space for honest and critical dissent both inside and outside Parliament and the legislatures," the notice read.

Tewari said the proposed discussion should focus on framing an anti-defection law that discourages politically motivated defections while safeguarding the space for principled dissent within Parliament and state legislatures.

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The central government on Monday introduced the Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha, laying out a modern statutory framework for the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) with a focused push toward data science, emerging technologies, and strategic industry collaboration.

Union Minister Rao Indrajit Singh introduced the legislation, which seeks to repeal and replace the Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959 while preserving the institute's designation as an Institution of National Importance.

The legislation aims to transition the existing society into an autonomous statutory body corporate.

The Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 seeks to provide for a comprehensive statutory framework to the Indian Statistical Institute, to excel as a globally recognised centre in Statistical Sciences and allied fields

The legislation expands the statutory definition of Statistical Sciences and it includes "the fields of theoretical and applied statistics, mathematics, economics, data science, computer science and other quantitative sciences including biology, physics and earth sciences; and such other allied fields including quantitative social sciences and modern technologies, such as cryptology and other related disciplines as may be specified by the regulations."

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