Parliament is in session—and once again, the Congress-led Opposition has chosen noise over nuance, drama over debate, and street-level sloganeering over statesmanship. What unfolded on the opening day of the monsoon session wasn’t just disappointing. It was disgraceful. Let’s start with facts. As is customary, the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) met before the session. The government tabled the agenda. The Opposition agreed to it. Yet, once the House convened, that agreement was treated like toilet paper—shredded, stomped on, and flushed down the drain of political expediency. Every time Parliament meets, the same theatre plays out. Opposition parties demand sessions be called, but when they are, they do everything possible to derail them. The cost? Crores in taxpayer money. The consequence? National interest takes a back seat, while public patience wears thin. This is not democratic dissent. This is a dereliction of constitutional duty. The latest excuse for the Opposition’s obstructionist spree was U.S. President Donald Trump’s astonishing claim that he “brokered peace” between India and Pakistan during a recent four-day military conflict. Even by Trumpian standards of self-promotion and confusion, this was absurd. He even claimed that “four or five” fighter jets were lost—but couldn’t say who lost how many. Not India. Not Pakistan. Just random planes falling from the sky. And what does the Indian Opposition do? Instead of dismissing the American President’s incoherent ramblings, they demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi appear in Parliament to explain what Trump meant. This is not just laughable—it’s alarming. The truth, as confirmed by top military officials and government sources, is that India launched a precise and punishing operation—Operation Sindoor—against Pakistan-based terror camps. Nine facilities were destroyed, including those of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Tehrik-e-Mujahideen. India also took out several Pakistani air defence installations, including one near Kirana Hills close to their nuclear assets. The operation was paused not under U.S. pressure, but after the Pakistan DGMO pleaded with India for a ceasefire.
So, let’s ask the real question: Why does the Opposition prefer a U.S. President’s baseless boasts over the word of their own Prime Minister, armed forces, and intelligence agencies? Why repeat Pakistani propaganda about India losing Rafale jets, when even Pakistan’s lies have been debunked? Is their hatred for Modi now greater than their loyalty to India? Demanding that the Prime Minister make a personal statement on every incident is not only constitutionally illiterate—it’s politically juvenile. India is a parliamentary democracy, not a presidential one. The Prime Minister is primus inter pares—first among equals—and cabinet ministers are fully empowered to speak on critical issues. If External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar or Defence Minister Rajnath Singh address the House, that is not an insult to democracy—it is democracy functioning as designed. To be clear, the government has offered to hold a debate on Operation Sindoor and the recent Pahalgam terror attack. It has done so both in the BAC and on the floor of the House. And if necessary, the Prime Minister—currently on an important foreign visit—may return to address the issue. What more does the Opposition want? Blood? No, they don’t want answers. They want anarchy. The well of the House has become their playground. Their only agenda is disruption, and the only strategy is spectacle. This isn’t opposition politics. This is political vandalism—an assault on the very sanctity of Parliament. It’s also a betrayal of the public trust. Indians elect MPs to legislate, debate, and deliberate—not to tear up papers, shout slogans, or parrot foreign propaganda. And the public is watching—angrily, wearily, and unforgivingly. With state elections around the corner in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, and elsewhere, voters will remember who respected Parliament and who reduced it to rubble. They will remember who stood for India, and who stood with hearsay from Washington and propaganda from Rawalpindi. If the Congress and its allies still believe this behaviour is winning them hearts or votes, they’re deluding themselves. The people are done with this drama. It’s time Parliament is allowed to function—and it’s time the Opposition remembers what it was elected to do. Debate, yes. Disrupt, no. Dissent, yes. Disorder, never.
