Jairam Ramesh registers his strong protest that the written request of senior leader Digvijay Singh not accepted and Sports Governance bill pushed in Lok Sabha

The general secretary of All India Congress Committee and incharge of Media and Communication Department, former union environment minister during the Congress regime outspoken Jairam Ramesh has come down heavily on the ruling political dispensation at the centre for pushing the National Sports Governance Bill in the Lok Sabha , 2025 on Monday despite the senior member of parliament and chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children , Youth and sport writing to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that the bill should first be referred to the committee for deeper examination and wider consultations given that this is a significant legislation which majorly re- writes the existing sports Governance architecture of this country.
Jairam Ramesh says that however the Modi government has as in the past avoided this request of Mr.Singh which us a legitimate request.
In a post in X the senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote :
The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025 was bulldozed through the Lok Sabha yesterday and will perhaps be subject to the same treatment in the Rajya Sabha today.
Yesterday, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports @digvijaya_28 had written to the Lok Sabha Speaker requesting that the Bill be referred to the Committee for deeper examination and wider consultations. That is what such Committees are for. However, the Modi Govt – as has happened so very frequently in the past – ignored this perfectly legitimate request.
The Bill will result in the extreme centralisation of sports administration. And, of course, the BCCI will get most favoured treatment, not subject to any laws of the land like the RTI said Ramesh.
In a letter to the speaker OM Birla Congress Digvijay Singh has categorically mentioned that since this issue is important and highly critical it should be examined and discussed by the Parliamentary standing committee before it is taken up bh he parliament as a whole. This is after all the very purpose of the standing committee said senior Congress leader and chairman of the standing committee Digvijay Singh in his letter addressed to speaker Lok Sabha.