Overview

• Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato adjourned proceedings first till noon and then till 2 p.m. after ruling and BJP MLAs trooped into the Well in competing protests.
• Congress and allies targeted the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, calling it voter disenfranchisement, as INDIA bloc members also demonstrated outside the House citing claims of 65 lakh deletions in Bihar.
• BJP legislators demanded a CBI probe into the Surya Hansda ‘encounter’ death and alleged forced acquisition of tribal land for the RIMS-2 project in Ranchi’s Nagri.
• The Jharkhand State University Bill, 2025 was adopted by voice vote, defeating amendments from BJP MLA Naveen Jaiswal, who objected to provisions curbing the Governor’s powers.
• A special discussion reported 32% above-normal rainfall with deaths from lightning, snakebites and drowning, widespread damage to homes and infrastructure, and large crop losses, as the Opposition faulted disaster preparedness and sought immediate relief.