A parliamentary push to the BRICS agenda
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Source: Hindustan Times | Original Published At: 2026-10-26 00:35:38 UTC
Key Points
- The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum is being hosted by the Parliament of India in New Delhi under the theme 'Fostering Parliaments for People-centric Development'.
- The forum's four thematic pillars are resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability, aligned with India's 2026 BRICS chairship and the New Delhi Declaration.
- The forum examines how parliaments can translate BRICS summit commitments into domestic policies through legislation, budgetary approvals, executive oversight, and inter-parliamentary cooperation.
- The article highlights BRICS support for reforming global institutions, including the UN and Bretton Woods institutions, to make them more inclusive, representative, transparent, and effective.
- It cites the New Development Bank as a BRICS cooperation outcome, noting that it has approved $43 billion for 139 projects globally.
- The article also references India's digital parliamentary transformation, AI governance framework, and green energy transition, including non-fossil sources accounting for over 54% of India's power capacity in July 2026.