School are open, election rallies are fine, protests engulf the nation but why is government afraid to attend parliament?

The students are expected to show up for exams, the market and businesses are expected to open up for ‘economy’ and crowd is expected to turn up at the election rallies BUT, the government does not want to do their job of attending parliamentary session to handle the country’s affairs.

The winter session will not be held in the Parliament view of the COVID-19 pandemic while the government also indicated that it will be appropriate to convene the budget session in January next year.

The opposition parties alleged that they were not consulted by the government over its move to scrap the winter session, insisting that Parliament should meet to discuss the ongoing farmers’ protests over the three controversial agriculture laws.

It is necessary to be noted that India’s peak of Coronavirus pandemic is gone and during the peak, they not only carried political rallies before Bihar elections but also opened schools and colleges in certain areas of the country.

The winter session of Parliament normally starts from the last week of November or the first week of December.

The Constitution broadly stipulates one major rule that there should not be a gap of more than six months between two sessions of Parliament. However, it has been a convention to hold three sessions of Parliament — budget, monsoon and winter — in a year.

In the past few weeks, the opposition parties have stepped up their demand for holding the winter session in view of the ongoing farmers’ agitation over three new farm laws, saying the government should repeal these legislations and hold fresh discussions on reforms in the agricultural sector.

The excuse given by Parliamentary Minister was “Winter months are very crucial for managing the pandemic because of recent spurt in cases during this period, particularly in Delhi. At present, we are in the middle of December and a Covid vaccine is expected very soon.”