Special Parliament Session: Opposition suspects surprises, claims BJP govt may employ 'Dirty Tricks'
BJP has called for a special session of Parliament. Opposition feel that this move is aimed at deflecting attention from the recent Mumbai meeting of the INDIA bloc and has been amplified to dominate public discourse, overshadowing critical issues.
They suspect that the government might have more up its sleeve than it has revealed thus far.
The agenda paper for the special session includes a cryptic line that reads, "...this is not the exhaustive agenda," leading to concerns among opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Derek O'Brien, an MP from TMC and the leader of Rajya Sabha, expressed reservations about the government's intentions.
He said, «The agenda of the special session has still not been announced, and I say this because in the list of business, they have written a very sinister line, saying it is not the exhaustive list of business. They (the government) will be up to dirty tricks, and they can add some business last minute.»
A top Congress leader has raised the possibility that the government might advance Lok Sabha elections by combining them with the end-year assembly polls in five states, possibly scheduling them for January.
This is an outcome that the opposition has been anticipating and discussing since chief ministers Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee first mentioned it back in June.
The Modi government's recent push for «one nation, one election,» followed by the establishment of a high-powered committee to explore this concept, has heightened concerns among opposition parties. The rather 'lackluster agenda' for the upcoming five-day session, which many believe could have easily waited for the winter session of Parliament, has reinforced doubts that the government might introduce
