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Parliament dissolution by Feb 15?
Parliament Dissolution by Feb 15?, AP Reorganisation Bill, Telangana Bill. Parliament is likely to be dissolved by February 15 next year, soon after a debate on the AP Reorganisation Bill, according to reliable sources.
- After their passage, Centre may seek Vote-on-Account
- Three Bills including one on bifurcation to be taken up in January last week
- However, fate of Bills depends on the attitude of BJP
Hyderabad: Parliament is likely to be dissolved by February 15 next year, soon after a debate on the AP Reorganisation Bill, according to reliable sources.
After reconvening the Parliament in the last week of January 2014, the UPA government would get Vote-on-Account passed, and three Bills would be sought to be passed. While one of them is that of Telangana, the other two pertain to anti-communal violence and reservations for women.
If the AP Reorganisation Bill is passed by both the Houses of Parliament and the President gives his assent, there may be a brief spell of President’s rule in the State, since it would take time to bifurcate the State and form new State governments. The idea seems to be to go for Governor’s rule before elections. Steps to implement the decision of bifurcation would be taken during the President’s rule; elections would be held in two States. The winning party would be forming the government, ending the President’s rule.
In case, the UPA government fails to push the Bill through, the State would remain united under Kiran Kumar Reddy as the Chief Minister. It would be for the next Parliament to consider the Reorganisation Bill.
The Women’s Reservation Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha three years ago, but the UPA government has not been able to bring it to Lok Sabha. The Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal have been vehemently opposing the move. Congress president Sonia Gandhi is understood to be very keen that the Bill be passed by Lok Sabha before its term ends.
The BJP, the main Opposition party, would support the Bill. It may, however, oppose the Bill on anti-communal violence in the present form. If the amendments demanded by the BJP leaders are accepted, that Bill also may be passed.
The AP Reorganisation Bill has become controversial. The Congress high command is, however, confident that it will be passed without any difficulty. It all depends on the attitude of the BJP. Reliable sources claim that President Pranab Mukherjee may prefer to refer the Bill, after it is sent back to him from Hyderabad, to a committee of legal experts to ascertain that it has no loopholes before it is tabled in the Parliament.
