Overview
- Speaker Om Birla said he received credible information of a potential approach to the Prime Minister’s seat and advised Narendra Modi not to attend the Lok Sabha.
- The Motion of Thanks was passed in the Lok Sabha without the Prime Minister’s customary reply, a rarity that both sides are using to question each other’s conduct.
- Opposition parties rejected the Speaker’s security claim and kept up demonstrations after Rahul Gandhi was barred from citing excerpts from former Army chief M. M. Naravane’s unpublished memoir under House rules.
- Eight Opposition MPs remain suspended as presiding officers recorded 19 hours and 13 minutes of time lost, and the House again halted without taking up the Union Budget discussion.
- In the Rajya Sabha, Modi delivered a lengthy address attacking the Congress as Opposition members staged walkouts, while protests continued outside the chambers over the India–US trade deal.