Overview
- The Monsoon Session, which begins on July 20, is scheduled to take up five newly listed bills and two previously introduced measures, including the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill and the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill.
- The Constitution (131st Amendment) on delimitation and a 33% women’s reservation is absent from the tentative agenda but government sources say a revised package remains under negotiation and could be reintroduced if vote arithmetic improves.
- Among the five new bills are the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill to criminalise obstruction of the singing of Vande Mataram, a stricter Registration of Births and Deaths Bill, an Income‑Tax Amendment to replace a recent ordinance, a bill to raise sanctioned Supreme Court judges from 33 to 37, and an MSME reform bill.
- The NDA’s path to passing any constitutional change depends on securing a two‑thirds majority; recent defections reported from TMC and Shiv Sena and pending Speaker rulings on rebel‑MP recognitions have narrowed the gap but the government remains short of the threshold.
- Opposition leaders have set a coordinated assault on the government over issues such as alleged Ram temple donation misuse and NEET paper leaks, and two joint parliamentary committee adoptions on the 130th Amendment and the education bill were deferred, prolonging debate on contentious measures.