New Delhi, March 27 -- Over a hundred members of the transgender community and politicians from opposition parties including the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and the Indian National Congress called for the withdrawal of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, at a public hearing held in New Delhi last Sunday.

Rajya Sabha members Renuka Chowdhury, Manoj Kumar Jha and John Brittas, as well as Rachnatmak Congress chairperson Sandeep Dikshit spoke out against the bill and the negative impact it will have on the transgender community members who have been left out of the bill's ambit. NCP-SP national spokesperson Ansih Gawande sa...