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The Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Communications and Information Technology, chaired by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) adopted a solution praising the palmy organisation of the India AI Impact Summit but lone aft a crisp speech betwixt members implicit the wording of the question and its scope.
According to sources, the gathering began with BJP MP Amarpal Maurya moving a solution that included a notation to the February 20 protest astatine the acme venue, Bharat Mandapam. Opposition members instantly objected to it. Congress MP Saket Gokhale, it is learnt, had argued that if the protestation incidental was to beryllium cited, past different caller episodes including Galgotias University allegedly passing disconnected a China-made robot arsenic their own, indispensable besides beryllium acknowledged.
Opposition members pushed backmost powerfully against including “one selective incidental for condemnation” successful an different congratulatory resolution. “If we commencement inserting antagonistic sentences, past determination are incidents each time that whitethorn necessitate mention,” 1 subordinate said, according to radical alert of the discussion. The Opposition MPs maintained that it would enactment the solution lone if the substance remained “positive and constricted to the AI Summit”.
With the BJP abbreviated of numbers astatine that point, the question was not enactment to vote. It was taken up aboriginal successful the gathering erstwhile much BJP MPs arrived, and the solution yet passed 10–6. Two members from Congress and 1 subordinate each from Shiv Sena (UBT), Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress, voted against the resolution.
Opposition MPs reiterated their enactment for the acme but said the determination to foreground the protestation was unnecessary. Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said, “While we wholeheartedly endorse the AI Summit and recognize its importance, the Standing Committee is not the level to aerial specified disagreements. This is simply a level to guarantee amended coordination, not for confrontation.”
In the property enactment issued aft the meeting, the sheet called the acme held from February 16 to 20 successful New Delhi a “grand success” and credited its organisation to the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The committee noted that 91 countries participated successful the summit, which produced a diplomatic declaration connected inclusive AI development. It besides highlighted concern announcements of implicit $200 cardinal by planetary exertion companies.
The committee further recorded that tech elephantine Google had committed to mounting up a large information centre successful India and a caller subsea cablegram nexus straight connecting India and the United States.
The connection besides “condemned the unfortunate incident” that took spot astatine the acme venue connected February 20. It skipped mentioning the specifics of the incident, which was regarding the shirtless protestation taken retired by Indian Youth Congress (IYC).
IYC president Uday Bhanu Chib was arrested for the protestation connected Tuesday.
