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Periscope: Monsoon session of Parliament will end on Friday

The session has passed one Constitutional Amendment Bill and other smaller Bills

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The monsoon session of Parliament will end on Friday. The session has not been as fraught as those have been lately, though the National Democratic Alliance government seems to have a penchant for shooting itself in the foot by generating controversies in the middle of a session. This time, it was the defection of four sitting Congress MLAs in Gujarat, ahead of the Rajya Sabha election that has Amit Shah as a candidate. 

This has had the effect of the Congress scrambling to sequester its Gujarat MLAs to ‘protect’ them from crossing the floor and, of