INDIA bloc to raise Ram temple, NEET paper leak issues in Monsoon session: RJD’s Sudhakar Singh

Published 12 July 2026 · education

The INDIA bloc will seek to corner the Centre in the upcoming Parliament session over issues like the Ram temple donation case and the NEET

The INDIA bloc will seek to corner the Centre in the upcoming Parliament session over issues like the Ram temple donation case and the NEET paper leak, while also resisting the BJP's alleged attempts to secure a two-thirds majority by engineering defections in opposition parties, RJD MP Sudhakar Singh said. The Monsoon Session of Parliament is scheduled from July 20 to August 13. In an interview to PTI on Sunday (July 12, 2026), the Buxar MP alleged that the BJP was pursuing a political strategy to weaken Opposition parties in an attempt to secure the numbers required to push through its legislative agenda. "The BJP wants to achieve a two-thirds majority by breaking Opposition parties across the country. The INDIA bloc will oppose that unitedly. We will raise every burning issue -from the Ram Mandir donation theft and the paper leak to unemployment, corruption and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls," Mr. Singh said. Asked about the recent defections by opposition MPs and speculation of more to come, Mr. Singh said the concern extended across the INDIA bloc. "Earlier, defections happened within the framework of the law. Today, it appears even those safeguards are being ignored. Every Opposition party is concerned because the ruling party is trying to weaken its rivals despite lacking the numbers on its own," he alleged.

Singh alleged that the BJP's efforts to weaken the opposition were part of a broader attempt to undermine the Constitution. "The 2024 Lok Sabha election was fought on the issue of saving the Constitution. People used to ask how the Constitution could be weakened. Today, we are seeing it happen through the laws being framed and the actions being taken," he alleged. Referring to the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Mr. Singh alleged that the exercise was an attack on citizens' voting rights. "The right to vote is a democratic right. If genuine voters are deleted from the electoral rolls, governments can be changed through the voter list rather than through the ballot. Once you capture the voter list, you capture the election," he alleged. He claimed that if such practices continued, elections in India would resemble those in "China, Russia and North Korea, where almost all votes go to the ruling party, leaving only the illusion of democracy". Singh said the Opposition would also strongly resist legislations such as ‘One Nation, One Election’, delimitation and other measures that, according to him, weaken the Constitution and democratic rights. "If the government brings legislations such as One Nation, One Election, delimitation or any other law that weakens the Constitution or curtails democratic rights, the INDIA bloc will oppose them both inside Parliament and on the streets," he said.