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Parliament reconvenes with the government set to renew its push for constitutional amendments on delimitation and women's reservation.
Parliament's Monsoon Session is scheduled from July 20 to August 13, 2026, with the government set to renew its push for constitutional amendments on delimitation and women's reservation. The NDA needs a two-thirds majority and is courting regional parties.
The Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) is reported set to support the government's delimitation and women's reservation bills in the Monsoon Session despite not being part of the NDA, a move that complicates INDIA bloc unity and could sway the numbers.
Six Lok Sabha MPs who broke from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) to join the Eknath Shinde-led faction have renewed scrutiny of the anti-defection law, with a Speaker's decision expected before the Monsoon Session.
The Lok Sabha passed the Unified Electoral Roll Bill 309-147, consolidating India's fragmented voter registries into one cloud-backed database and adding mobile-assisted verification for migrant workers. The bill now moves to the Rajya Sabha.
The Union Cabinet has approved the ₹3.8 lakh crore National Water Grid Master Plan to interlink 12 river systems over 15 years, aiming to ease chronic water scarcity for some 400 million Indians while managing flood surpluses in the north.
The Supreme Court has set up a five-judge constitutional bench to examine governors' discretion in withholding assent to state bills under Article 200, after Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and Punjab challenged prolonged gubernatorial inaction.
A coalition of opposition parties has filed a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha over the government's economic record, citing food inflation averaging 8.3% and a reported rise in urban manufacturing unemployment. The government expects to survive comfortably.
The government has notified a Delimitation Commission to redraw all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies using 2021 Census data. Southern states fear the population-based formula will cut their share of seats, and have urged the Centre to weigh development indicators.
