Congress Moves No-Confidence Motion Against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla

Parliament War Escalates: Congress Moves No-Confidence Motion Against Speaker Om Birla.

Congress has escalated its confrontation with the ruling BJP by formally submitting a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, triggering a rare and explosive parliamentary showdown amid claims of bias and suppression of the Opposition.

The notice was handed to the Secretary General of the House at 1.14 pm on Tuesday under Rule 94C, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said, following last week’s chaos in Parliament that even forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel his scheduled Lok Sabha address.  

The flashpoint was Birla’s assertion that he had “concrete information” of an “unexpected act” by Congress MPs near the Prime Minister’s seat, prompting him to advise Modi against entering the House—a claim the Congress has slammed as dramatic, unproven and damaging to parliamentary dignity.

According to sources, the no-confidence motion will centre on three key charges: blocking Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi from quoting an unpublished book by former Army chief General M.M. Naravane while allowing BJP MP Nishikant Dubey to read from anti-Congress books, suspending eight Congress MPs for the remainder of the session, and allegedly acting at the government’s behest to silence dissent.

Rahul Gandhi, in a sharply worded letter, accused the Speaker of violating parliamentary convention by denying the Opposition its right to speak, arguing that such actions strike at the heart of democratic functioning—turning the Speaker’s chair into the latest battleground in an increasingly bitter Parliament war.