BJP, NDA strategy meet on Wednesday on eve of winter session

NEW DELHI: NDA constituents are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to firm up strategy for the winter session of Parliament beginning on November 26 with the Congress-led opposition likely to make spirited attempts to corner the treasury benches over a host of issues, including the alleged rise in ‘intolerance’ in the country.
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Before the NDA meeting, the BJP parliamentary party executive will also meet at the Prime Minister's residence. “The executive will meet on November 25,” parliamentary party office secretary Balasubrahmanyam Kamarsu said.
While the massive win of the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in Bihar has fired up the opposition ranks, it has come as a dampener for BJP.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has also called an all-party meeting on Wednesday evening on the eve of the session.
The Government has declared November 26 as the Constitution Day and the first two days of Parliament will be devoted to it. With land ordinance allowed to lapse, the government's priority in the session will be to take up three other ordinance-related bills.
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Two of these bills are: Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015, to deal with cheque bounce cases; and Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts and Commercial Bill, 2015 that enables the creation of commercial divisions in high courts.
Another bill is needed to convert Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 into an Act. It was brought in for speedy settlement of disputes through arbitration.
As the Monsoon session was a near wash-out after the opposition closed ranks to corner the government on various issues in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the government’s floor managers are working a strategy to pass the less contentious bills first.