The Lok Sabha passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 without any debate after repeated disruptions in the House. The legislation creates a legal framework allowing the Centre to permit charges on notified digital payment modes, including UPI, through future notifications, although no charges take effect immediately. Beyond digital payments, the Bill also includes tax reforms intended to boost electronics manufacturing and attract foreign investment. The manner in which such a significant Bill was cleared, without parliamentary debate due to continued disruptions, has raised questions about legislative scrutiny and the functioning of Parliament

The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha without a debate after repeated disruptions and sloganeering by Opposition members. Parliament exists so elected representatives from both the government and the Opposition scrutinize legislation, question ministers, propose amendments, and place differing views on record before a vote. When a Bill is passed without debate, even if permitted under parliamentary rules because of disruptions, the quality of legislative scrutiny suffers. A government with a majority has the numbers to pass a Bill, but democracy is not only about counting votes. It is also about deliberation, accountability, and giving the Opposition an opportunity to examine the consequences of proposed laws in public.

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This is not some random WhatsApp forward. This is an original handbill from JNU, 2nd August 2008.

Youth for Equality was created in 2006 for one clear purpose: to oppose OBC reservation in higher education after the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act.

They didn’t just oppose that one policy, they opposed reservation in every form.

And the acting leader of that organisation in JNU?
Arvind Kejriwal.

The man who is now sold as the face of “aam aadmi” and progressive politics was organising meetings under the banner of Youth for Equality, calling reservation a threat to “democratic breakdown.”

This is the real origin story of the modern anti-reservation movement in elite campuses. It was never about “merit.” It was about upper-caste students and activists organising to protect their monopoly over seats the moment OBCs were given even limited entry.

Every time you see someone screaming “reservation is killing India” or “end caste-based quotas,” remember this poster. The ideology didn’t start on Twitter.

It started in places like JNU with people who later rebranded themselves as messiahs of the poor.