The Monsoon session which began on 17th July has brought up a flood on new issues to be discussed by the parliamentarians. The monsoon session, which concludes on August 10, will have 18 sittings in both the houses (the upper and the lower house)
An all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night for smoothing functioning of the Monsoon session received a “positive” outcome, according to Union minister Ananth Kumar.
The Prime Minister in the meeting spoke that his government is ready to debate and discuss any topic or issue the political parties find necessary for them to look into. He said he had always hoped for a productive session and striven for this and his government would continue to do so.
“Any party wants to raise any issue, this government is ready for a discussion,” he told at the beginning of the session.
There is an array of issues which the centre has to deal with in this session. Talking about the ongoing monsoon session and the inadequate rainfall in several regions in a number of parts of India. This response from the prime minister came up specifically after a no-confidence motion was initiated. It was to be heard and discussed on Friday, July 20th. Though a number of opposition parties had given notices for no-confidence motion during the Budget session, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had rejected all of them.
Regional parties like the TDP and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), the ruling and main opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh, pushed no-confidence motions against the government during the budget session of Parliament, but they weren’t taken up amid numerous disruptions. Both are demanding special category status for Andhra Pradesh in the light of its June 2014 bifurcation, which would entitle the state to special central grants and incentives.
However, the Prime Minister says that such a discussion should be ‘fruitful’ and hoped that ‘the productivity of the forthcoming session and the rich levels of debate also become a source of inspiration for the various state assemblies’.