The second leg of Budget session, set to begin on Monday, is likely to witness a stormy start as the opposition will try to corner the government over its failure to control the violence in Delhi which claimed over 40 lives.
The Congress has already demanded Home Minister Amit Shah's resignation over the issue in its memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind, while other opposition parties had written separately to the President on the issue.
The month-long session will go on till April 3. The government has also lined up some key bills for introduction and passing—primarily the three legislations related to women's reproductive rights. These three bills relate to termination of pregnancy, easing norms for surrogacy, and regulation of assistive reproductive technology. In the second part of the Budget session, discussions have been scheduled on demand of grants for various ministries, including railways, rural development, and agriculture.
Another key event coinciding with this session will be the elections to the 55 vacant Rajya Sabha seats. These seats are falling vacant in April. Elections will be held on March 26. Key Rajya Sabha MPs retiring include Harivansh Narayan Singh (deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha and JD(U) member), Sharad Pawar (NCP), Madhusudan Mistry (Congress), Prabhat Jha (BJP), Motilal Vohra (Congress), Digvijaya Singh (Congress), Kumari Selja (Congress), Parimal Nathwani (independent), Prem Chand Gupta (RJD), Ramadas Athawale (RPI), and Vijay Goel (BJP).
However, the issue that is set generate heat inside both the houses of the Parliament will be the violence which was triggered after a clash between those supporting the amended citizenship law and those opposing it. Sources said the opposition MPs will push for debate on the issue, and failure of Delhi Police to curb violence, and seek resignation of the home minister.
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In a bid to restore normal functioning of the house, the government may agree to holding of discussion on the issue of violence. At end of the discussion, Shah is expected to reply.
However, as the opposition parties made representation separately to President, it remains to be seen if they have floor coordination in the Parliament when it comes to cornering the government. Parties like NCP, CPI(M), CPI, RJD, LJD, DMK and AAP had sent a separate letters to Kovind.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is also expected to make a statement on the outcome of the US President Donald Trump's first official visit to India.
