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Parliament’s monsoon session takes up births, deaths and MSME bills
Both houses of Parliament were scheduled to meet during the monsoon session, with the Lok Sabha taking up the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, moved by Union Home Minister…
Both houses of Parliament were scheduled to meet during the monsoon session, with the Lok Sabha taking up the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, moved by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026. The Lok Sabha was also due to consider extending the deadline for a joint committee examining three constitutional and reorganisation bills. In the Rajya Sabha, minister Jitan Ram Manjhi was scheduled to move the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, 2026.
The report also noted that the Rajya Sabha had a day earlier cleared the Public Examinations amendment bill after an Opposition walkout during voting, and that the Lok Sabha had passed the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, by voice vote amid uproar from Opposition MPs. That bill seeks to make any obstruction or insult to the national song, Vande Mataram, a criminal offence.
Indian Opinion Analysis
This is a same-day legislative agenda rather than a report on any bill's content or effect, so the walkout and uproar mentioned here indicate disagreement without explaining what, specifically, the Opposition objected to. The national honour bill had already cleared both houses by the time of this report, while the births and deaths bill was still only listed for consideration, and the detail needed to judge either bill's merits sits in its text and later debate, not in this schedule notice. Still pending are the joint committee's deadline extension and, after that, whatever the committee recommends.
Source: TheHinduBusinessLine
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