{"id":546,"date":"2026-08-11T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=546"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:17:13","slug":"to-evolve-fcra-bill-consensus-govt-may-send-it-to-parliamentary-panel-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"To evolve FCRA bill consensus, govt may send it to parliamentary panel | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133167121,imgsize-189822,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/new-delhi-aug-11-ani-biju-janata-dal-bjd-mp-sasmit-patra-speaks-in-the-raj.jpg\" alt=\"To evolve FCRA bill consensus, govt may send it to parliamentary panel\" title=\"Some opposition parties, including Congress, have demanded that the bill be withdrawn\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Some opposition parties, including Congress, have demanded that the bill be withdrawn\">Some opposition parties, including Congress, have demanded that the bill be withdrawn<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: Govt is likely to send the FCRA bill to a joint committee of Parliament for scrutiny as part of its wider effort to evolve a consensus over the contentious legislation, which has drawn sharp protests from opposition parties and Christian bodies for its provisions that can allegedly stifle NGOs receiving foreign funding.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The bill\u2019s opponents, including church bodies which have met Union minister Amit Shah, have demanded it should be sent to either a parliamentary panel or be withdrawn. Some opposition parties, including Congress, have demanded that the bill be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"LEzX4\">\n<div class=\"PmOGb\">\n<p class=\"PSf84\">Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Insightful<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Agree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Disagree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Skeptical<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Concerning<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Promising<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Worth Reading<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Big Development<\/button><\/p>\n<p><textarea class=\"T9MbS\" rows=\"1\" placeholder=\"Add your Thoughts...\"\/><button type=\"button\" class=\"ZW6JD \" disabled=\"\">Post Comment<\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"swnca\">Be respectful \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/termsandcondition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"gkv0P\">TOI community guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Govt had reached out to opposition parties to elicit their views. An opposition MP said govt broached the demand of sending the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, which was introduced in Lok Sabha on March 25, to a joint committee at the business advisory committee, which includes members from different parties, of Rajya Sabha Tuesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>A parliamentary committee includes members from different parties and consults different stakeholders before arriving at its recommendations, a process that allows incorporation of various suggestions and likelihood of a consensus. TNN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/to-evolve-fcra-bill-consensus-govt-may-send-it-to-parliamentary-panel\/articleshow\/133167116.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some opposition parties, including Congress, have demanded that the bill be withdrawn New Delhi: Govt is likely to send the FCRA bill to a joint committee of Parliament for scrutiny as part of its wider effort to evolve a consensus over the contentious legislation, which has drawn sharp protests from opposition parties and Christian bodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}