Usually, there are three sessions in the country's Parliament. The budget session of Parliament is held at the beginning of the year, the monsoon session of Parliament is held during the rainy season and the winter session is held in November-December. A unique incident has happened this year. The monsoon session of Parliament ran from 20 July to 13 August and was adjourned sine die. Interestingly, there was no prorogation of this session. It is the 89th day since then but the Parliament session has not been called again. Now Congress has also raised questions on this. Congress is now reminding the record of 2008 and alleging that by doing so, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been given time so that he can somehow manage to get two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha and get the delimitation bill passed.
Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh from Congress has posted in detail about this. He says that even if the government tries hard, like last time, opposition unity will not allow this bill to be passed once again. Let us tell you that earlier in the year 2008, this had happened when there was a gap of 87 days between two meetings of any one session of Parliament. On Monday, November 9, this record of 2008 was broken and it took 88 days. It has been 89 days since the news was written on Tuesday. It is believed that this record could be even bigger as the government has still not given any indication that it is going to call a session of Parliament.
What did Congress say?
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has written in a detailed post about this, 'The 8th edition of Practice and Procedure of Parliament i.e. Kaul and Shakdhar which was published in 2024, had a message from the Prime Minister himself. It was written on page 192 that there is a difference of only two-four days between the Sine Die and Prorogation of the Lok Sabha. However, in footnote 53 of the same page it was written that in 2015 the maximum difference in the monsoon session was 28 days. In the letter written by the Union Parliamentary Minister to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on October 19, 2026, it is mentioned that in 2008 the monsoon session was stalled for 87 days. Let us tell you that then the gap of 87 days was with the consent of all the parties and according to the circumstances.
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He further writes, 'Even if we accept the words of the Union Minister, a new record has been made today. Unlike 2008, now this time has been given to the Union Home Minister so that he can muster two-third majority in the Lok Sabha to pass the dangerous and destructive Delimitation Bill. The same opposition unity which defeated it on 17 April 2026 will defeat it again. The Congress President has written letters to the Prime Minister four times in the last six months asking him to call an all-party meeting on the delimitation issue and discuss it in detail. The Prime Minister has denied this.
What difference does it make whether the session ends or not?
In fact, if a session ends and it is formally announced, then a notice is issued at least 14 days before calling the next session. That means, even if the Parliament session had ended and the government had issued the notice today, the Parliament session could not have started before November 25.
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On the contrary, to resume the proceedings of the current and adjourned session of Parliament, only 2 days' notice is required. This means that if the government issues the notice today i.e. on Tuesday, the Parliament session can start from Friday itself.
Now questions arise as to why this was done? The answer to this is that when the last session was held, the most discussed issue was about bringing the delimitation bill. However, at the same time there was a student movement in Delhi and the entire opposition united. It was said that some parties and MPs who were ready to change sides also did not want to be seen in favor of the government in that environment. This was the reason why that bill was put on hold. Probably the government had expected that an attempt would be made to pass this bill by suddenly calling a session. However, such a situation has not arisen yet.
What happened in April?
In fact, the Central Government wants that before the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, the number of Lok Sabha seats should be increased from 543 to 850 and out of these, 33 percent seats should be reserved for women. For this, the Central Government had tried to pass a bill in April 2026. This was the first time after the Modi government came to power in 2014 that it could not get any bill passed. Only 298 votes were cast in favor of this bill and 230 votes were cast against it, yet this bill was not passed. The reason for this was that to pass it, the support of two-third majority i.e. 352 MPs was required.
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After this, in the month of June, there was a major split in Trinamool Congress and 20 of its Lok Sabha MPs joined a separate party NPCI. Similarly, 6 out of 9 Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs joined Shiv Sena. This is being considered as an attempt to increase the number of NDA MPs. In this way the number of NDA MPs has increased by at least 26. By adding these 26, NDA has 324 votes. BJP has also spoken separately to Samajwadi Party, DMK and many other parties.
Congress has pointed out that BJP wants to somehow garner two-thirds majority and in this regard, it has continued the monsoon session of Parliament so that the session can be called in less time. In this situation, if some opposition MPs are absent and the number of MPs required for two-thirds majority is less, then BJP can also benefit from it. n