Parliamentary panel on Bills to remove PM, CMs gets extension till Budget Session 2026

Parliament on Thursday extended the tenure of the Joint Parliamentary Committee examining Bills related to the removal of the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers, allowing it to submit its report by the last week of the Budget Session in 2026

New Delhi: The Parliamentary committee examining Bills to remove the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers was granted an extension on Thursday to submit its report by the last week of the Budget Session next year.

Joint Parliamentary Committee Chair Aparajita Sarangi moved a resolution in Lok Sabha seeking time to submit its report “up to the first day of the last week of the Budget Session, 2026”.

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A voice vote passed the resolution. The Budget Session usually ends in the first week of April. The term of the committee, which had so far met only once, was coming to an end shortly.

The joint committee on the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, and the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill had earlier this month decided to invite the political parties that boycotted the panel.

Several opposition parties have stayed away from the committee, contending that the Bills violate the fundamental principle of law of a person being presumed innocent until proven guilty, and resort to automatic sacking of a prime minister, chief ministers, and ministers if they fail to get bail within a month of arrest in serious criminal matters.