"Centre lacks policy, direction": SP MPs accuse govt of wasting Parliament's time
Dec 04, 2025
New Delhi [India], December 4 : Accusing the Centre of "wasting" the Parliament's time, Samajwadi Party parliamentarians said on Thursday that the fourth day of the winter session of Parliament will have the party MPs trying to raise "burning issues", including the recent alleged cough syrup smuggling case in Varanasi.
SP MP Rajeev Rai, while criticising the Centre for earlier trying to deny a discussion on Special Intensive Revision (SIR), told ANI, "Who is responsible for wasting the Parliament's time? This government used to deny discussion on SIR, and now they have conveniently agreed. It lacks policy, direction and ideology. We will expose them whenever we can."
SP MP Virendra Singh said that they are trying to raise "burning issues in Parliament, including the alleged cough syrup case in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's own constituency.
"We have been trying to raise the burning issues of Varanasi. The first is the matter of poisonous cough syrup going on in the PM's constituency for 4 years. This should be investigated in detail and the PM should take strict cognisance of this," Singh told ANI.
The allegations of cough syrup smuggling pertain to allegations of pharmaceutical companies smuggling codeine-containing cough syrup in Varanasi. Cases have been filed against a total of 26 firms by the Uttar Pradesh Food and Drugs Department.
Meanwhile, the 4th day of the winter session of Parliament commenced at 11 AM today.
While the Lok Sabha commenced with the Question Hour, the Rajya Sabha had various reports of Parliamentary Standing Committee submitted to the floor of the House. In the Rajya Sabha, MPs Brij Lal and Harsh Vardhan Shringla presented reports on the Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to move the Health Security se National Security Cess Bill, 2025 for consideration and passing in the Lok Sabha today. The bill aims to augment resources for meeting expenditure on national security and public health, and to levy a cess for the said purposes on machines installed and other processes undertaken for the manufacture or production of specified goods, and for matters connected therewith.
