LS passes Mines and Ports bills amid protest over SIR in Bihar

NEW DELHI: Amid the chair naming deputy leader of opposition Gaurav Gogoi for "instigating" opposition MPs to protest, Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2025, and the Indian Ports Bill, 2025, following brief speeches by the ruling camp amid din of protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.

The proceedings were marred by vociferous sloganeering in the well of the House, which resulted in LS being adjourned once in the afternoon, after it had failed to conduct listed business in the morning. After the passage of the two bills, Jagdambika Pal, who was in the chair, named Gogoi for provoking the MPs to rush to the well and to tear up papers and fling them towards the chair.