Parliament Winter Session 2025 Day 9 Live Updates | Both Houses adjourned till tomorrow; Nadda accuses Congress of opportunism, says Vande Mataram didn’t get due respect

Parliament Winter Session 2025 Debate Today News Live Updates, Day 9: The Parliament has been seeing disruptions and uproar over various issues, such as the SIR, vote chori claims, Vande Mataram row.

Both Houses adjourned till Friday 11 am. Union Minister and BJP president J P Nadda wrapping up a Rajya Sabha debate on Vande Mataram, accused the Congress of being opportunistic and failing to give the national song its deserved respect on Thursday. He said the government’s intention is not to tarnish former PM Nehru’s legacy but to correct historical records. Nadda alleged that while Congress takes credit for the Nehru era when convenient, it avoids responsibility in difficult situations. He also noted that the 1971 Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act includes no penalty for disrespecting or not singing Vande Mataram.

Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha speech: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that he directly challenged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss his press conferences on “vote chori” in Parliament, but did not receive an answer. A day after the Lok Sabha witnessed a heated exchange between him and Shah during a debate on election reforms, Gandhi claimed that Shah appeared to be “under pressure”. “He (Shah) used the wrong language, his hands were shaking, you would have seen all this. He is under pressure mentally that was witnessed in Parliament, the whole country saw it,” the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha told reporters in the Parliament House complex.

What happened in the Lok Sabha over ‘SIR’? A combative Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at the opposition in the Lok Sabha for its campaign against SIR, saying the issue has been raked up as it can no longer win elections by “corrupt practices”, and asserted that the reason for Congress’ defeat in polls was its leadership, not EVMs or “vote chori”. In his intervention in the debate on election reforms, Shah alleged that the opposition wanted to keep the “avaidh ghuspathiye’ (illegal immigrants) in the voter list and hence the SIR issue was raised, but the Narendra Modi government’s policy is clear — detect all aliens, delete their names from the voters list and throw them out of the country.

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