more-inAmidst speculation that the Government could delay the winter session of Parliament until the campaigning for Gujarat polls gets over, the Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of running away from tough questions on the economy ahead of those elections. It is clear that Prime Minister Modi and the BJP are running scared of Parliament as they don't want the Opposition to expose their wrong decisions,” said Mr. Sharma. Usually, the winter session of Parliament is convened around the third week of November (November 21 onwards) and it ends a couple of days before Christmas. Constitutional expert Subhash C Kashyap, however, said there is no Constitutional obligation on the Government to convene the winter session by the third week of November. The government don't want us to expose them before the Gujarat elections,” said Mr. Sharma.

Source: The Hindu November 09, 2017 16:05 UTC