Winter Session of MP Meeting begins with protests over cough syrup tragedy, brief period of session

The primary day of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Meeting’s Winter Session convened on Monday (December 1, 2025) with a disagreement between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together and the Opposition Congress MLAs over tragedies that killed many kids within the State over the previous few months.

The four-day-long session started with members paying their condolences to varied folks, together with movie actor and former Lok Sabha MP Dharmendra, former Union Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal, and the victims of the explosion close to Delhi’s Crimson Fort.

Nonetheless, the condolence session changed into an heated between either side when Chief of Opposition Umang Singhar introduced up the latest cough syrup tragedy that killed 26 kids in Chhindwara and close by districts and slammed the federal government for not together with them within the condolence record.

“Three consecutive tragedies occurred within the state, and it is stunning that the federal government did not handle the deaths, did not categorical sympathy, did not point out them. Has the federal government misplaced its humanity?” Mr. Singhar stated within the Home, whereas additionally slamming the federal government over the deaths of two kids after they have been bitten by rats at Indore’s state-run MY Hospital.

Mr. Singhar calls for elevated compensation for the victims’ households.

His remarks, nevertheless, drew criticism from Cupboard Minister Vishwas Sarang who accused the LoP of violating the Home guidelines by mentioning points outdoors the record, resulting in a disagreement between the Treasury and Opposition benches.

Earlier than the proceedings commenced, the Congress MLAs additionally staged an indication on the premises as they carried dummy infants to protest in opposition to the tragedies involving kids with MLA Sena Patel dressing up as a demon and carrying a garland of cough syrup bottles.

Congress MLAs additionally focused the federal government over the brief durations of the classes whereas alleging that there was a conspiracy to “diminish” the function of legislators.

“The variety of issues in admissions is continually rising within the State, and the session is changing into shorter and shorter. This can be a conspiracy to decrease the function of legislators. What is the level of a 3-day or 4-day session? Why does the federal government need to run away from the Home? It would not even need to pay attention. The place will the legislators categorical their views? How will the general public’s issues be raised? All of the farmers, all the scholars are protesting. Should you do not need to maintain classes and talk about (points), what is the level of getting a Legislative Meeting?” Badnawar MLA Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat stated.

The continuing session may have 4 sittings till December 5, with December 3 being a vacation on the forty first anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal fuel tragedy.

The BJP and Congress MLAs additionally debated over the compensation for farmers for the crop harm attributable to extreme rain, the worth distinction compensation to Soybean farmers beneath the Bhavantar Scheme, and mismanagement and alleged scarcity of fertilizer at distribution centres.