The GST Bill, already passed by the Lok Sabha, must be passed by the Rajya Sabha by December 23, the last day of the winter session.
Slogans and protests returned to Parliament on Monday as the Congress raised the
allegations against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of corruption in the Delhi cricket body calling for his resignation. As ruckus swelled in the Rajya Sabha, the House was adjourned till 2 pm.
The Juvenile Justice Bill is
in focus right now with the controversial release from a remand home on Sunday of the youngest attacker of Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old medical student who was gang-raped and tortured by six men on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012.
Amid widespread demand that the bill, approved by the Lok Sabha earlier this year, be passed the government has put the onus on the Opposition.
"The juvenile law is listed in the supplementary business of the Rajya Sabha today. But it was drowned by disruptions., We are ready to pass," said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.
Parliament is trying to squeeze in legislative work in the last three days of the winter session, after the
government and the opposition clinched a truce at an all-party meeting on Friday. The session has so far been a wash out with the opposition disrupting the Houses, particularly the Rajya Sabha, continuously.
At the meeting called by vice-president Hamid Anasri, who is also the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, sources said, the government and the opposition agreed to pass a number of bills including the Prevention of Atrocities Against SC and ST bill, which is expected to be taken up first, and the appropriation bills.
But the government's flagship reform measure, the Goods and Services Tax or GST Bill is not among them. Sources said it was not discussed at Friday's meeting.
The chances of it being brought in this session now seem very bleak. About 18 other bills are pending in the upper House.