<div>The Narendra Modi government may hold a short session of Parliament after the first week of September to get passed the GST bill and other legislations on which there is a consensus. The government has sounded out the parties which are expected to back the GST Bill on the probable session date. Most of the regional parties, with the exception of the AIADMK, want the new legislation, often described as the most significant economic reforms measure since the 1991 opening of the Indian economy.</div><div> </div><div>Reliable sources told <em>BW|Businessworld </em>that the NDA government managers had sounded out regional parties on the probable dates and the possible agenda of the session. The government is also keen to get passed crucial legislations which enjoy broad support among various parties. The real estate (regulation and development) bill is such a piece of legislation.</div><div> </div><div>When the special session gets convened, it will be Part Two of the monsoon session.</div><div> </div><div>Businessworld.com had broken the story on the NDA government’s plan to convene a two-day session to pass the GST bill, crucial to meet the April 1, 2016 rollout deadline.</div><div> </div><div>Government managers including the parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu are speaking to Congress leaders to bring them on board on the GST bill. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently said that GST was originally a Congress bill.</div><div> </div><div>The government, on the other hand, appears to have given up on the land bill. Senior Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, when asked recently whether the land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement ordinance, 2015 would be allowed to lapse on Aug 31 (when the executive measure expires), said that “the government would wait for the report of the joint committee in Parliament, due in the winter session of Parliament”.</div><div> </div><div>M Venkaiah Naidu, however, indicated that the government may go for a fourth-time promulgation of the ordinance to maintain its continuity.</div><div> </div>
