'Parde ke peeche kuch aur hai!': Jairam Ramesh on Parliament session agenda

The governmenton Wednesday sent a tentative list of bills that would be taken up during the special session including The Advocates (Amendment) Bill, The Press and Registration of Periodicals Bills, The Post Office Bill and The Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, conditions of Services and Term of Office) Bill.

Reacting to this, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said the legislative grenades are being kept up their (government’s) sleeves to be unleashed at the last moment as usual.

“Parde ke peeche kuch aur hai!,” remarked the Congress leader on social media platform X.


Ramesh said that the government released the agenda after Sonia Gandhi’s letter to the Prime Minister.

“Finally, after pressure from Smt. Sonia Gandhi's letter to the Prime Minister, the Modi Govt has condescended to announce the agenda for the special 5-day session of Parliament beginning September 18th,” he said.

The Congress leader said the agenda as published at the moment, is much ado about nothing — all this could have waited till Winter session in November.

The government has already announced an all-party meeting on Sunday, a day ahead of the beginning of Parliament’s five-day special session, amid criticism by the Opposition over being kept in the dark on the agenda for the session.