As elections of President and Vice-President are scheduled in between the ongoing Monsoon Session, the experts have opined that the session would not witness as much ruckus as it used to be in comparison to other proceedings of the House.
The session is scheduled to start on Monday, which is also the polling day for the Presidential election, and would remain functional until August 11 –when the newly elected Vice-President would take the oath of office.
"As during the Monsoon session, series of events like election for President, farewell to incumbent President Pranab Mukheerje and then oath taking ceremony of newly elected President are scheduled, it's expected that most of the members would be occupied with official obligations," an official of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry said while claiming that there would be disruptions during the Monsoon session.
Besides, the events like nominations for Vice-President, voting for the V-P, the farewell of Hamid Ansari and oath taking ceremony of newly elected Chairman of Rajya Sabha would also take place during the monsoon session.
As the session will have only 19 working days, it's expected that the House proceedings would come to an end on August 11 with less number of disruptions and only a few bills would be passed during the Monsoon session.
The first day of the House would end up due voting for the Presidential poll and on account of the death of two sitting MPs –Lok Sabha
member Vinod Khanna and Rajya Sabha member
Pallavi Reddy.
According to sources, the government would attempt to bring in only those bills which would be supported by Opposition parties. A meeting of all parties has also been called by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for the better functioning of the House.
During the meeting, Mahajan would seek cooperation from leaders of different parties in the Lok Sabha to ensure smooth transaction of business in the House during the Monsoon session.
Despite, elections of President and Vice President, according to political experts, the Opposition would corner the government over the issues of cow vigilantism, farmers' suicides, protests over farm loan waiver, CBI raids on Lalu Prasad Yadav, border rift with China and Pakistan, etc.
In the backdrop of stormy session, the key bills that would be introduced in the House include the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, which is aimed at granting right to Reserve Bank of India to deal with non-performing assets (NPAs), and The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill 2017.
The other key bills that would be introduced in the House are Repeal of State Bank of India (subsidy banks) Act 1959, Negotiable Instrument Act, Indian Institute of Management Bill 2017, The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Amendment) Bill 2017.