New Delhi, Apr 1 Several Opposition MPs, led by the Congress, staged a protest in the Parliament complex on Wednesday against the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, and demanded that the proposed legislation be withdrawn.
Displaying a large banner that read "Stop Targeting NGOs and Institutions," the MPs raised slogans against the government and demanded the withdrawal of the Bill.
Several Congress MPs, including Dimple Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, ET Mohammad Basheer of the IUML, Supriya Sule and NK Premchandran of the NCP(SP), among others, participated in the protest.
The Congress had claimed on Tuesday that the BJP was planning to "bulldoze" the FCRA amendments in Parliament and said it would not allow the "blatantly unconstitutional" and "draconian bill" to be passed.
Congress general secretary in-charge organization, K C Venugopal, had said that party MPs had been urgently asked to reach Delhi and attend Parliament on Wednesday.
The bill to amend the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) was introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 25, with the government making it clear that individuals engaging in forced religious conversion through foreign funding will not be spared.
Introducing the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai, had stated that the legislation aims to enhance transparency and ensure proper utilization of funds received from abroad.
Earlier on Tuesday, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju had asserted that the FCRA amendment Bill only seeks to stop the use of foreign funding against national security and interests and not to target any religious organisation.
Speaking to reporters at the BJP headquarters, Rijiju had slammed the Congress and Left parties, accusing them of spreading falsehood on the proposed amendment in the FCRA.
"Their claims about the Bill are 'completely false, fabricated and misleading'," the BJP leader had said.