India, July 22 -- Four weeks, 28 pending Bills, and a House that adjourned within hours of convening: the Monsoon Session has begun with a storm

Parliament's Monsoon Session, running from July 20 to August 13 with nineteen sittings, carries a packed legislative docket: Bills on income tax, MSME reform, foreign contributions, births-and-deaths registration, and a new higher-education regulator to replace the UGC and AICTE. But one Bill will dominate everything else - the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, which proposes automatically removing a Prime Minister, Chief Minister or minister from office after thirty days in judicial custody on serious charges. The Joint Parliamentary Committee reviewing it has voted to retain this clause eve...