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The Lok Sabha volition instrumentality up a statement connected the 150th day of National Song 'Vande Mataram' connected Monday (December 8, 2025) and connected electoral reforms connected Tuesday (December 9), Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said.
The determination was taken aft an all-party gathering and a Business Advisory Committee (BAC) chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, signalling that the logjam prevailing successful some Houses implicit the Opposition's request to discuss Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is apt to beryllium broken.
"During the All Party Meeting Chaired by Speaker Lok Sabha today, it has been decided to clasp treatment successful Lok Sabha connected 150th Anniversary of National Song 'Vande Mataram' from 12 Noon connected Monday, December 8 and treatment connected Election Reforms from 12 noon connected Tuesday, December 9," Mr. Rijiju said successful a station connected X.
Just up of the BAC meeting, Mr. Birla met enactment leaders to interruption the deadlock successful the House implicit the Opposition's request for a treatment connected SIR.
"The BAC gathering discussed the debates to beryllium held connected Vande Mataram and electoral reforms, (with) opposition's SIR treatment statement clubbed nether electoral reforms. On Monday (December 8, 2025), the House volition instrumentality up the statement connected Vande Mataram and past connected Tuesday (December 9) and Wednesday (December 10), the House volition statement electoral reforms," Congress' main whip K. Suresh told reporters aft the BAC meeting.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition initiate the statement connected 150 years of Vande Mataram.
He said 10 hours each person been allotted to some the debates, adding that clip could beryllium extended if the House deems fit.
The Speaker's meetings came successful the aftermath of repeated disruptions successful the Lok Sabha implicit the issue.
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Rijiju met level leaders of governmental parties but refused to springiness a timeline for the treatment connected electoral reforms, contending that the Opposition cannot dictate presumption to the government.
Mr. Rijiju is learnt to person ruled retired a treatment connected SIR, contending that it was an administrative substance of the Election Commission and the authorities had nary relation successful it.
However, the Minister was acceptable for a treatment connected a broader taxable of electoral reforms arsenic it fell wrong the government's purview.
The Opposition has been insisting that the authorities springiness an assurance connected the level of the House connected the treatment connected the SIR exercise.
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the 2nd consecutive time implicit Opposition protests connected the SIR workout presently underway successful 12 states and Union Territories.
