A BETTER SESSION, BUT LAW MAKING RUSHED

THE just-ended session of Parliament was reasonably productive and suggested a measure of maturity among elected representatives, especially after the near washout of the previous monsoon sitting.

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While tempers ran high on both sides, there was a noticeable willingness from the Chair and the treasury benches to accommodate differing views-a quality conspicuously absent earlier. Last session, the Opposition's demand for a debate on the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar had been flatly rejected, triggering repeated disruptions. This time, however, the government agreed to recast the issue as a wider discussion on electoral reforms. That semantic adjustment created space to raise concerns over SIR and alleged vote manipulation. The government, for its part, held firm on sequencing-insisting first on a debate markin