Congress whip in the Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore said 340-plus MPs of the INDIA bloc are boycotting the "so-called JPC on the Constitution (130th Amendment Bill), J&K Reorganisation Bill, and UTs Amendment Bill".

"Out of 31 members -- 21 are BJP and NDA allies (AGP, AIADMK, TDP, Pawan Party, UPPL); 10 are B-Team parties (BJD, TDP, YSRCP, SAD, NCP, AIMIM, etc.). Again Jagan proves he is with BJP/RSS," Tagore said, adding that the two nominated members were handpicked by the government.

"This JPC is nothing but a rubber stamp for Modi's unconstitutional agenda," Tagore said, adding that 340 MPs have boycotted it because the government formed it without consensus or parliamentary ethics.

"Even after being voted out, the VoteChori Modi Sarkar continues to misuse institutions, bulldoze Parliament, and now rewrite the Constitution itself. History will remember this as the day BJP tried to formally erase democracy," the Congress leader alleged.

The TMC, the first party to boycott the panel, had called the panel a "farce". Following this, the Samajwadi Party and AAP also announced that they will not join the panel, alleging that the purpose of the proposed legislations is to ‘bring down’ opposition governments. After dilly dallying for a while, the Congress and other parties decided to boycott the panel for the sake of unity.

The committee has been mandated to submit its report in the winter session, scheduled from December 1-19.

Amid vociferous protest by the Opposition, the three bills -- the Constitution (One Hundred And Thirtieth Amendment) Bill 2025, Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill 2025; and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2025 -- were introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 20. Tempers flared in the House, copies of the bills were torn and flung, and members of the ruling and opposition alliances came face to face when Home Minister Amit Shah moved to introduce the bills.