India Hosts 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum in New Delhi

26 October 2026National

India opened the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum at the Parliament House Complex, New Delhi, on 26 October 2026, under the theme 'Fostering Parliaments for People-Centric Development'. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Chairperson of the Forum, presides over the two-day meeting, which runs to 27 October and gathers delegations from 11 BRICS member countries and 10 partner countries invited by India. Four high-level sessions cover resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability, with terrorism also on the agenda, alongside a separate meeting of the Chairs of International Affairs Committees. The Forum caps India's BRICS chairship for 2026, which already delivered the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi.

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BRICS began as BRIC in 2009 with Brazil, Russia, India and China; South Africa joined in 2010 to make it BRICS | India holds the BRICS chairship for 2026 and hosted the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi; the New Development Bank is headquartered in Shanghai | Om Birla is Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha; the Speaker is elected by the House under Article 93 of the Constitution

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