CCPA meet today may decide on short Parliament session

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has convened a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) amid indications that the body could consider convening a short session of Parliament for passage of key legislations, especially the GST bill.
Sources in the government indicated that the option of calling a brief session was on the table, but stressed that no decision was taken yet.
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The government has been keen on early passage of the GST bill and has been encouraged by the feedback that Congress’s blockade of the monsoon session has not gone down well with important constituencies which consider passage of the reforms legislation crucial for quickening growth.The assessment also saw the party and the government stepping up its charge that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi stalled Parliament because they did not want growth to pick up under the Modi government.
Sources also said the BJP was considering launching a countrywide campaign to expose Congress’s plan to disrupt growth for the sake of its partisan objectives. The campaign, likely to be announced by party chief Amit Shah after Friday when he is expected to discuss the issue with his colleagues, will see BJP members organizing rallies and demonstrations in the constituencies of Congress MPs to expose what parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu called a “sordid plot to damage the country’s economy”.
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The government can convene a brief session without having to take leave of the President if the current session is not prorogued and is merely adjourned sine die by the chair in Parliament. The session to be thus called will be seen as an extension of and in continuity with the current session.