The adjourned Budget Session of Parliament will restarts tomorrow, 22nd April 2013. It will be a stormy session, no doubt. The leaked draft report of the JPC exonerating the present P.M., Dr. Manmohan Singh and accusing former Prime Minister A.V.Bajpayee for the lapses is sure to be strongly protested by the opposition. The direct attack on the constitutional institution CAG for focussing on the scam will also be exposed.
The inefficiency and callous attitude of the Delhi Police administration, which is directly under the Central Government, in dealing with rape cases and protestors will certainly rock both the houses of Parliament, and Home Minister Shinde will have to answer.
The government wants certain bills to be passed like increase of FDI in Insurance, Pension etc. The Left Parties will strongly oppose these so-called ‘reforms’ which are intended to maximise the profit of corporates and to marginalise the PSUs.
Finance Minister Chidambaram stated in Washington today that the government wants the FDI in Insurance to be increased from 26% to 49%. He added that if the main opposition BJP supports, this could be passed in this session itself. It is interesting that what is to be done in the Parliament is being first announced in a foreign county, USA. Of course US corporates will be very glad to hear the news. But the workers, specially the Employees of LIC, are not going to accept this lying down. Struggles are on the way to defeat the proposal, as in such instances earlier.