Overview
- Officials said the Monsoon session is likely to start on July 20 and run about three weeks, though the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs has not yet fixed final dates.
- The Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla, must decide on requests by roughly 20 Trinamool Congress MPs and six Shiv Sena-UBT MPs to be recognised as separate groups, a move that could change opposition strength and committee allocations in the House.
- The government is redrafting a Constitution amendment to increase the number of Lok Sabha seats and is reportedly considering a uniform 50% rise across states after a previous combined bill including women’s reservation was defeated in the Lok Sabha.
- Recent BJP victories in West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry and oath‑taking by newly elected Rajya Sabha members have strengthened the NDA’s numbers in the Upper House, altering the parliamentary arithmetic for contested measures.
- The session will test political fault lines: southern parties have warned against population‑linked seat changes, internal rebellions in TMC and Shiv Sena-UBT are likely to play out on the floor, and the government’s approach now determines whether the seat‑revision plan can advance.