Parliament Faces Disruption For Third Consecutive Day As Oppn Keeps Up With Bihar SIR Protest

For the third day, opposition parties, including Congress and INDIA bloc members, protested against Bihar's electoral roll revision outside Parliament.

MPs like Sonia Gandhi chanted slogans like "Save democracy" and displayed banners criticising the government.

Source : PTI

The opposition parties continued their protest against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar for the third consecutive day.

Several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, participated in the protest on Thursday outside Parliament during the ongoing Monsoon Session. 

Top leaders and MPs of the opposition, including those of the Congress, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party, JMM, RJD and Left parties, assembled outside the Makar Dwar of Parliament ahead of the start of the day's proceedings and raised slogans against the government. 

Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and K C Venugopal, Samajwadi Party's Ziaur Rahman Barq, TMC's Kirti Azad, DMK's A Raja and other MPs raised slogans like "Save democracy" and "Stop vote-bandi".

#WATCH | Delhi: INDIA bloc MPs stage a protest outside the Parliament, against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise being carried out by the Election Commission of India ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections. pic.twitter.com/Cmuiwr8c83

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#WATCH | Delhi: INDIA bloc MPs stage a protest outside the Parliament, against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise being carried out by the Election Commission of India ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections. pic.twitter.com/Cmuiwr8c83

— ANI (@ANI) July 24, 2025

The protesting MPs held a huge banner in front of them, which read 'SIR- Loktantra par Vaar' as they lined up on the steps of the Makar Dwar of Parliament and staged a protest for the third consecutive day.

The Lok Sabha, which convened for the business of the day, adjourned shortly till 2 pm over protests by opposition MPs in the House. 

Meanwhile, in the Rajya Sabha, Deputy Chairman Harivansh rejected 30 adjournment notices given by Opposition MPs for discussion under Rule 267.  

Among these was notice given by IUML member Abdul Wahab, who demanded a discussion over the 'unexpected resignation of Honourable Chairman Rajya Sabha'.