Winter Session: Opposition’s 10:30 AM Protest to Paralyse Parliament Over Voter Purge

The Winter Session of Parliament opened Monday with immediate and sustained turmoil, as opposition MPs from Congress, AAP, Trinamool Congress, DMK, and Left parties transformed the Lok Sabha into a cacophony of slogans accusing the government of engineering large-scale electoral fraud through the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, forcing Speaker Om Birla to adjourn the House multiple times until Tuesday 11 am.

Opposition floor leaders have mobilised for a high-visibility protest at 10:30 am Tuesday in front of Makar Dwar, deliberately timed thirty minutes before the scheduled resumption of proceedings, demanding immediate suspension of all listed business under Rule 267 to debate what they describe as systematic disenfranchisement of millions, targeted deletion of minority and opposition voters, unexplained deaths of Booth Level Officers, and a deliberate attempt to manipulate electoral outcomes ahead of crucial 2026 assembly polls.

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has formally submitted a Rule 267 notice calling for priority discussion on the SIR exercise, alleging it constitutes the gravest assault on democratic fairness since Independence, while Congress and allied parties insist the government’s refusal to allocate even a single day for debate exposes its fear of public scrutiny over an issue that strikes at the heart of constitutional guarantees under Articles 14, 21, and 326.

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The opening day also witnessed an extraordinary sideshow when senior Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury arrived at Parliament with her pet dog and, when questioned by journalists, remarked that “those who actually bite are already inside Parliament,” a barbed reference to ruling party members that the BJP swiftly condemned as an unacceptable affront to the dignity of the House and its elected representatives.

Addressing the media before entering Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for the Winter Session—one of the briefest on record, spanning only December 1 to 19—to become a forum for substantive and result-oriented legislation rather than a stage for political theatrics or post-election frustration, implicitly criticising the opposition’s confrontational strategy while the government prepares to table 13 new bills and one financial measure, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Central Excise (Amendment) Bill to increase duties on tobacco products.

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