Speaker's call on TMC, UBT rebels before monsoon session

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will take decisions on the defections in the Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) before the monsoon session of Parliament, which is expected to start in the third week of July, amidst demands of the rebel MPs' disqualification by their parent parties, sources privy to the development said.

- PTI

The Lok Sabha Speaker met and heard a TMC delegation headed by its leader Abhishek Banerjee as well as the party's breakaway group, and a similar exercise was also carried out with regard to the Shiv Sena (UBT), they said.

Consultations among legal and constitutional experts of Parliament are underway before they provide their inputs to the Speaker to help him take the final decisions.