�New Delhi: Parliament was paralysed for the third consecutive day as Opposition MPs disrupted both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha over the Bihar electoral roll revision. Repeated adjournments occurred amid slogan shouting and placard waving, but the government managed to introduce the National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, and the National Anti Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha.
The Sports Governance Bill aims to promote sports, safeguard athletes’ welfare, enforce ethical standards, set governance benchmarks for federations, and establish mechanisms for resolving disputes. The Anti Doping Amendment aligns India’s anti doping framework with the World Anti Doping Agency Code and international best practices, and ensures the National Anti Doping Appeal Panel’s independence.
On Wednesday, the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day at 2 pm after Opposition members stormed the Well during Question Hour, demanding debate on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar’s voter rolls. Earlier, proceedings had been suspended until 2 pm when protests persisted. TD’s Krishna Prasad Tenneti, presiding over the session, repeatedly adjourned the House as members chanted “Sir wapas lo” (“Withdraw SIR”).
Speaker Om Birla warned MPs that such “street like behaviour” is unbecoming of Parliamentarians and threatened “decisive action” if they continued carrying placards or disrupting proceedings. Similar disruptions had halted the first two days of the Monsoon Session over demands to discuss Operation Sindoor and the Bihar SIR.
Meanwhile, JD(U) MP Girdhari Yadav criticised the SIR process as impractical, accusing the Election Commission of lacking local knowledge and noting the one month deadline for document submission was unrealistic. His party later distanced itself, with JD(U) spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan Prasad affirming full support for the SIR exercise to eliminate duplicate and outdated entries.
In the Rajya Sabha, repetitious protests forced adjournments at 11 am, noon, and again at 2 pm, despite the introduction of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2025, by minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Opposition MPs repeatedly trooped into the Well, demanding discussion of the SIR and the right for Opposition Leader Mallikarjun Kharge to speak. Deputy Chairman Harivansh rejected 25 adjournment notices, including calls to debate SIR, Delhi’s slum demolitions, alleged discrimination against Bengali migrant workers, and air safety issues, prompting further uproar. He urged the House to allow MDMK’s Vaiko to raise his Zero Hour mention on Sri Lanka’s arrest of Indian fishermen before adjourning the session amid continued protests.
