A bill proposing controversial amendments to India’s foreign contribution law was referred to a 31-member joint committee of Parliament on Wednesday amid a standoff between the government and the Opposition and repeated disruptions in the House.
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“I would also like to mention that earlier, at the request of the Opposition, a discussion has already taken place in the current session of Parliament on the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, in which no honourable Member of Parliament from the Opposition expressed any views in the House regarding the NEET examination. For the last 20 days, Amit Shah has been missing. The penultimate day of the monsoon session began with Union home minister Amit Shah saying he was ready for a discussion on students’ protests and police action, only for the Opposition – which has been demanding his statement in the House and another debate on the Ram Temple donation row – to rebuff the offer. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi -led NDA government is ready for discussions. Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju hit back, saying that the Congress and others had been demanding for days that the bill be referred to a JPC. The minister denied any pressure on the government to refer the contentious bill to a House panel and argued that the decision was taken to allow extensive discussion. When I say ‘we’, I mean the younger generation of this country. Who shot the students? Who gave the order to beat up the students with lathis with nails? Did Amit Shah give this order to shoot our children? If he did, then he should resign.
The Opposition, which tried to pressurise the government to scrap the bill said it will join the JPC. “Even in the JPC, we will continue to strongly oppose this bill and will not allow these unconstitutional and coercive provisions to become law,” said Congress general secretary KC Venugopal. He also referred to Shah’s letter to Birla, where the home minister said that Rijiju – on behalf of the government during the business advisory committee meeting – gave consent for a discussion in Parliament on student protests. Despite this, the government is ready to discuss this issue once again,” Shah said in the letter written in Hindi. “The Opposition has clearly said that we are not interested in Amit Shah giving us a lecture. The home minister of India has no courage; he cannot come to the House,” Gandhi said.
The House should be allowed to run, the Opposition should submit a letter to the speaker by 2pm today. We are ready to start discussion at 3pm today,” Shah said in a rare media interaction outside Parliament.
