Letters: Breach of convention

According to well-established convention, since April 2, 1952, three sessions of Parliament are held in a year — budget session from February to May, monsoon session from July to September and winter session from November to mid-December. The length of each session and the dates are the prerogative of the cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs. The Constitution mandates that the gap between two sessions cannot exceed six months. The violation of this well-established convention has often taken place in the hands of the party in power, whenever and wherever suitable. The United Progressive Alliance government violated it in 2008 by