Monsoon Session of Parliament to begin on July 18

Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will sit simultaneously during the Session

The Monsoon session of the Parliament will start on July 18 and end on August 12 even as the government and the Opposition are replenishing their armoury to target each other on a variety of issues. The arguments are expected to be around issues like the controversial Agnipath military recruitment scheme, Udaipur killings, sliding rupee, price rise, and the overthrowing of Maharashtra government.

The session is coming at a time when the elections for posts of President and Vice President will be held. Presidential election is on July 18, the first day of the Monsoon session, while the poll for the Vice President will be held on August 6, which is a Saturday.

Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will sit simultaneously from 11 am during the 18 sittings – July 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and August 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 12.

Besides the elections to the posts of President and Vice President for which voting will be held in Parliament House also, the ruling BJP-led NDA and the Opposition will be locking horns on a variety of issues.

The government has not spelt its legislative agenda yet.

However, on top of the agenda for both sides would be the Agnipath scheme on which the Opposition and the government are on a warpath as well as the recent killing of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur.

The session will also come at a time the BJP outsmarted the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Agadi (MVA) to topple their government by engineering a coup in the party which is in alliance with Congress and NCP. The Opposition is likely to raise the issue in Parliament and try to corner the BJP, saying it is toppling elected governments through “horse-trading”.

The Congress will vociferously raise the issue of “misuse” of central agencies, especially on the backdrop of questioning of its top leader Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case for over 50 hours in five days.

The ruling BJP believes that it has an upper hand over the Opposition, as it has managed to stump them on the Presidential polls by managing to wean away some of its allies to support them. It also thinks that the Maharashtra developments will put the Sena in a spot.

Opposition parties, on its part, will raise price rise, unemployment, sliding rupee and overall economic situation in the country