A stormy session may be in the offing

Issues like price rise, Maoist violence and problems faced by farmers including sugarcane growers are likely to be raised in the upcoming session of Parliament which promises to be stormy.
A week before the start of the session, Lok Speaker Kumar today convened a meeting here of leaders of all political parties to discuss ways and means to ensure smooth conduct of the session.
"We look forward to a stormy session," she said adding in a lighter vein "otherwise it will get very boring". Ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament beginning November 19 she hoped that issues would be sorted out in the month-long session even if there were "heated discussions".
She was answering questions from reporters after the all party meeting whether she was apprehensive of a stormy session in view of a variety of issues including price rise being planned to be raised by opposition parties.
Kumar said that the "character of democracy" is that different stands are taken by different political parties and those are discussed in the House. She said she has been assured by all parties that they would extend support in smooth running of Parliament. Some members also wanted that Government should ensure a minimum 100 sittings of Parliament in a year. Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal expressed government's readiness for such a move but asked political parties to help it prepare the schedule.