New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party (SP) MPs Akhilesh Yadav, Dharmendra Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad, TMC MP Saugata Roy, JMM MP Mahua Maji and other opposition leaders stage a protest wearing black clothes to express solidarity with students protesting against the NEET paper leak issue, during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (PTI Photo)
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday expressed that the government was willing to hold discussion on the NEET paper leak issue in the Lok Sabha. However, the Opposition uproar continued as they demanded accountability for police action against student protesters on July 20. Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings have once again been adjourned till 2 pm.
Dressed in black, leaders of several Opposition parties on Wednesday staged a protest outside Parliament to express solidarity with students protesting against the NEET paper leak issue, news agency PTI reported sharing visuals. The leaders are demanding the resignations of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over police action on student protesters, and the NEET paper leak.
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A day earlier, Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, Congress leader and MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav were detained as they rallied behind protesters at Jantar Mantar. They were released later.
Congress MP KC Venugopal moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha demanding that the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan be called upon to make a suo motu statement explaining the paper leak incidents throughout his tenure, news agency ANI reported. The party’s general secretary demanded that Pradhan must take moral and constitutional responsibility and tender his resignation.
Key Bills to be discussed today:
Lok Sabha: The House is set to take up the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026, for consideration and passage today, with Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal scheduled to move the legislation. Kiren Rijiju and Gaurav Gogoi will present the Seventeenth Report of the Business Advisory Committee. MP Anurag Singh Thakur and Manna Lal Rawat are also scheduled to present three reports of the Standing Committee on Coal, Mines and Steel (2025-26). A motion by Sudheer Gupta and Mukeshkumar Chandrakaant Dalal seeking an extension of time for the presentation of the report of the Joint Committee on the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, till the last day of the Monsoon Session, will also be considered.
Rajya Sabha: The Upper House will take up reports of the Public Accounts Committee on defence-related issues, including delays in production of the Dhanush gun system and a Rs 62.10 crore loss over replacement of defective ammunition. Union Ministers Nityanand Rai, BL Verma, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Sukanta Majumdar and Harsh Malhotra will lay papers on the Table on behalf of their respective ministries.
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