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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs person fixed notices successful some Houses of Parliament to sermon "voter disenfranchisement", sources said connected Monday (March 9, 2026).
“In the Lok Sabha, elder enactment person Saugata Roy has submitted an adjournment question announcement demanding a statement connected the issue. In the Rajya Sabha, MPs Nadimul Haque and Saket Gokhale person fixed notices nether Rule 267,” sources said.
The determination comes arsenic the Opposition cries foul implicit the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful 5 States — including West Bengal — that are heading to Assembly elections.
The TMC has been vocal successful its absorption to the mode successful which the SIR workout is being carried out.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been sitting connected a dharna successful Kolkata since Friday (March 6, 2026) to protestation against the SIR campaign.
According to authoritative information released connected February 28, 2026, arsenic galore arsenic 63.66 lakh names, oregon astir 8.3% of the electorate, person been deleted since the SIR process began successful West Bengal successful November past year, reducing the elector basal from astir 7.66 crore to conscionable implicit 7.04 crore.
In addition, much than 60.06 lakh electors person been placed nether the "under adjudication" category, which means their eligibility volition beryllium determined done ineligible scrutiny successful the coming weeks, a process that could further reshape constituency-level electoral equations.
The 2nd fractional of the Budget league of Parliament is acceptable for a stormy commencement connected Monday (March 9, 2026), with the Lok Sabha scheduled to instrumentality up an Opposition-sponsored solution seeking the removal of Speaker Om Birla.
The ongoing struggle successful West Asia is besides apt to fig prominently arsenic the Opposition is already attacking the authorities implicit its stance towards Iran, and the U.S. "waiver" connected India's Russian lipid purchase, among different issues.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar volition marque a connection successful the Lok Sabha regarding the "Situation successful West Asia", according to a revised database of concern of the Lower House for March 9, 2026 circulated connected Sunday evening (March 8, 2026).
