"The government would like to understand fully the reasons why the bill was not taken up for three years by the UPA government in the Lok Sabha and allowed to lapse," the letter read.
To avoid another wash-out like the previous session, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government today reached out to all parties and requested the legislators to make the monsoon session productive.
BJP leaders believe that a political narrative imbued with its Hindutva agenda will suit the party as it battles anti-incumbency in poll-bound states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and gears up for the next Lok Sabha elections 2019.
At a meeting to decide their common strategy to corner the government during the session, starting July 18, the opposition leaders discussed major issues they want to raise in Parliament.
The meeting also has on its agenda, finalising a joint candidate for the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman's post, which fell vacant afte the end of the term of P J Kurien from the Congress on July 1.
Terming the prime minister a "peddler of untruths", the Congress also challenged him to discuss his allegations against the opposition party in Parliament during the Monsoon Session beginning July 18.
Holding the RSS-BJP and other right-wing outfits responsible for the increasing incidents of alleged hate crime and attacks on Dalits, CPI Rajya Sabha MP D Raja said Modi must answer as to why the SC/ST Act was "diluted" and why so many Dalits are being "killed" across the country.
The Upper House is providing the facility for simultaneous interpretation in five more languages of Kashmiri, Dogri, Santhali, Konkani and Sindhi.
The Monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 18 and end on August 10.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: The election will be seen as a test of the strength of opposition which has been signalling a combined fight against BJP-led NDA in the next Lok Sabha polls.
The Monsoon Session of the Parliament will be addressing various Bills and ordinances. The session will also introduce new Bills within a span of 18 days
The session is set to begin on July 18 and end on August 10. The triple talaq bill is among the legislative items topping the central government's agenda during the session.
He also said that "dynastic" Congress under Gandhi was not good for democracy.
The triple talaq bill will be among the top government priorities as it has been passed by the Lok Sabha and is pending in the Rajya Sabha
New Delhi, Aug 5: Lok Sabha witnessed slogan shouting by members against the proposal to form Telangana and demand for Bodoland during Question Hour on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament today.
New Delhi: July 15: The Monsoon session of Parliament will be held from August 5 to 30 during which the ordinance on Food Security Bill will come up for ratification and other import economic legislations
New Delhi, Jul 3 : An all-party meet on Lokpal today agreed that a “strong and effective” bill should be brought in the Monsoon session of Parliament with consensus on maintaining the supremacy of Parliament
New Delhi, Apr 17 : As the government and civil society representatives work on drafting the Lokpal Bill, BJP has come out in favour of its expeditious creation to fight corruption.“We are in favour of
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