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May 10, 2026
After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced its decision to opt out of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on bills to remove the prime minister, chief ministers and ministers if they are detained or arrested for 30 consecutive days, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party may also follow suit.
Quoting a source in the Samajwadi Party, news agency PTI reported that the SP is also unlikely to nominate any member to the proposed panel. Notably, senior TMC leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien, in a blog post, has also said that the SP has decided not to nominate any member to the JPC.
The Samajwadi Party is, however, yet to confirm whether it would nominate any member to the JPC.
“The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the second largest Opposition parties in Parliament, decided not to nominate any of its members to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) being proposed to examine the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, calling the committee a ‘farce’,” he said
