Overview

• Proceedings in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been adjourned for the fifth consecutive day as opposition MPs refuse to end their boycott without a dedicated discussion on Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls.
• Opposition members have filed dozens of suspension-of-business notices under Rule 267 and staged a symbolic tearing and binning of ‘SIR’ posters at the Makar Dwar to protest what they allege is a disenfranchisement campaign.
• The Election Commission has defended the exercise as a court-monitored cleanup, reporting that 56 lakh dead, migrated, duplicate or untraceable entries have been marked for deletion from Bihar’s rolls.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla convened a cross-party meeting that secured agreement to resume business with a debate on Operation Sindoor from Monday but left unresolved any formal discussion of the SIR exercise.
• In Patna, RJD leader Rabri Devi has led ongoing demonstrations outside the Bihar assembly, warning that the revision could strip millions of migrant and economically vulnerable voters of their franchise.