Parliament Monsoon Session ends amid protests over new Bills; B Sudershan Reddy files V-P nomination

Parliament Monsoon Session has ended as Lok Sabha has adjourned sine dine amid protests over new Bills.

Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 12 noon amid protests from the Opposition over the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar.

INDIA block’s B Sudershan Reddy will file his nomination today at 11:30 AM for the post of Vice President of India. He will run against NDA’s CP Radhakrishnan.

“I don’t belong to any party, so all can support me,” Reddy, who is a former SC judge, said.

While speaking on the Online Gaming Bill, Vaishnaw said, “When faced with a choice between addressing social issues and supporting an industry, we’ll always put society first.”

He said that the Bill is being introduced as online real money gaming has adversely impacted many families in the country. The real money gaming has led to addiction and suicides in the country, Vaishnaw said.

Shortly after passing the Online Gaming Bill, the Lok Sabha session was adjourned till tomorrow. Earlier today, Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025; The Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025; and The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2025 in the Parliament. After a voice vote, the bills were referred to Joint Committee.

Later, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 in the House amid fierce protests from the Opposition MPs. No debate was done and the Bill was passed by Lok Sabha by voice vote.

Speaking on the Online Gaming Bill, Vaishnaw says, “Online money games promoting addiction. Opaque algorithms of such games have severely impacted families.”

“Govt wants to promote e-gaming and e-sports,” he added. Om Birla asks MPs to debate on the Bill. The fierce sloganeering by the opposition continues. After a voice vote, the Online Gaming Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha.

As the House proceedings began, Opposition MPs were heard saying “House idhar bhi hai, sir”. Om Birla said that he will give everybody chance to speak even till midnight 2 am.

Ashwini Vaishnaw starts speaking on Online Gaming Bill.

Lok Sabha proceedings will resume shortly. The House was adjourned earlier amid protests from Opposition MPs. In the last session, the three bills tabled by Amit Shah were referred to the JPC.

Outside the Parliament, TMC MP Mahua Moitra told PTI that Home Minister Amit Shah “did not have courage” to sit in his own seat while introducing the “Unconstitutional Amendment”.

“First, marshals were sent inside… What moral authority does the Union Minister have if he is so afraid that he has to sit in the fourth row to bring this constitutional amendment?” Moitra said. The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 5 pm shortly after the three bills were referred to the JPC.

Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury questioned the timing of introduction of the three Bills by Amit Shah. “Parliament’s monsoon session ends tomorrow, and today they are introducing these bills… We have seen a lot of such drama before,” she told PTI outside the Parliament. She further claimed the Bills were introduced out of the blue and the business was not even listed in today’s House proceedings.

BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said outside the Parliament on Wednesday that the senior Opposition MPs tried to physically attack other MPs during the session. “It is very sad that MPs are behaving like this, trying to fight… What is their problem with this bill? Do they have a problem because this bill provides a solution for people like Arvind Kejriwal, who go to jail but do not resign?… People who go to jail and still run the government, it is sad for Indian governance… This bill addresses this issue. I don’t know why they are creating a ruckus…” he told ANI.

RJD MP Manoj Jha said, “These are draconian Bills, they have passed a lot of these Bills…What is the immediate need for statehood to be restored in J&K?…There is an important, clear distinction in law between the accused and the convicted. That distinction has ended. So, they are turning into reality their concept of Opposition-free democracy. I alert Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar, as well as others in his party – perhaps they want to target someone against them too…”

The protests from Opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha only grew louder before it was eventually adjourned once again till 5 pm. According to IE, there came a point when BJP and TMC MPs almost got into a scuffle in the Well of the House.

The report further stated that TMC MPs stormed the Well of the House and started shouting slogans. Other opposition MPs however did not join the protests in the Well.

After it was passed by the Lok Sabha yesterday, Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025, to set up an IIM in Guwahati, Assam.

House proceedings resume amid protests from the Opposition parties. Om Birla asks Opposition MPs to behave themselves and not protest in unparliamentary way. Lok Sabha passed the resolution to refer the three Bills introduced by Amit Shah to Joint Committee. The House has been adjourned till 5 pm.

Opposition members allegedly threw paper bits towards Home Minister Amit Shah while he was speaking before the adjournment. The proceedings have resumed now.

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Speaking on the floor of the Lok Sabha, Amit Shah said that he too resigned once on ethical and moral grounds as the minister of Gujarat in 2010. CBI arrested Shah, the-then Home Minister of the state, in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He was later cleared of all the charges.

Opposition has come down heavily on the newly introduced bill that says PM, CM or minister if arrested for 30 days, must resign from their position on the 31st day. CPI(M) MP John Brittas took to X and wrote, “The new bill by…Amit Shah, purportedly in the name of “public interest, welfare, and good governance,” is, in reality, draconian and designed to destabilize opposition-led state governments while undermining India’s federal structure.”

Brittas further said, “In an era marked by vindictive politics, where central agencies are ideployed against opposition leaders, the provisions will be misused for ulterior motives.”

Amit Shah said that the bills for removal of PM, ministers, CMs held on serious criminal charges, will be referred to the Joint Committee. Earlier, the government tabled three bill on the floor of Lok Sabha. All three bill have been sent to the Committee. Shah had introduced the 3 key Bills in Lok Sabha, namely – Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025.

As soon as the Home Minister tabled the three Bills, the environment got heated up in the Lok Sabha. The Opposition began chanting slogans against the new Bills. Considering the ruckus and commotion, the Lok Sabha has now been adjourned till 3 pm.

Union Home Minsiter Amit Shah has introduced the 3 key Bills in Lok Sabha, namely – Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025. The tabling of Bills were met with loud sloganeering from the Opposition.

The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, seeks to prohibit the offering, operation, facilitation, advertisement, promotion and participation in online money games through any computer resource, mobile device or the Internet.

The bill also aims to adverse social, economic, psychological and privacy-related impacts of such games.

It seeks to ensure responsible use of technologies.

Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2 PM amid the opposition’s demand to discuss the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Bihar.

Ashwini Vaishnaw tabled the Online Gaming Bill in the Parliament amid opposition ruckus. Kiren Rijiju says that the bill is ‘in nation’s interest’.

Kiren Rijiju slams Oppn members over the ruckus in the House, adding that the government will pass the bills in the interest of the nation.

He added that the bills would be passed nevertheless.

There is a ruckus in the Parliament as MPs are listing their items in the Parliament by the MPs.

Lok Sabha proceedings have resumed after the lower house of the Parliament was adjourned till 12 noon.

Modi, flanked by Radhakrishnan and senior NDA leaders, hands over 4 sets of nomination papers to the returning officer.

NDA’s V-P pick, CP Radhakrishnan, has arrived at the Parliament to file for nomination. He will run against the INDIA bloc’s V-P candidate B Sudershan Reddy.