The Lok Sabha will have no business on the opening day as it would adjourn in memory of two sitting MPs – Hemendra Chandra Singh of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Kapil Krishna Thakur of Trinamul Congress – who died since the last session.
Five new members are slated to take oath on the opening day and they include Dr (Mrs) Pritam Gopinath Munde from Maharashtra and Mrs Ranjanaben Bhat from Gujarat, both from the BJP.
The business listed in the Rajya Sabha on Monday includes withdrawal of the controversial Higher Education and Research Bill introduced by Kapil Sibal in 2011 and passage of Bills to amend the Labour Laws Act and the Apprenticeship Act.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumtira Mahajan convened a meeting of leaders of all parties Saturday evening to seek their cooperation in smooth running of the session.
The Speaker had called the meeting specially at 7 PM instead of holding it during the day time to facilitate presence of Prime Minister Modi who was busy campaigning in the Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir during the day. Modi had returned to Delhi, but he did not turn up at the all-party meeting of the Speaker.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has also convened a meeting of leaders of all parties Sunday evening to seek cooperation in conduct of the two Houses in passing of a big load of pending legislations.
Stung by the Saradha chit fund scam, Trinamool Congress (TMC) declared that it is skipping the meeting convened by Venkaiah Naidu. Its Rajya Sabha member tweeted that the meeting was called at short notice and hence “TMC will skip the all-party meeting.”
