The Monsoon Session of Parliament this year — the eighth session of the 18th Lok Sabha — has recorded the longest sine die adjournment in history, as it has not been prorogued yet after 83 days. The Monsoon Session began on July 20 and was adjourned sine die on August 13. Unlike prorogation, which formally ends a session, an adjournment sine die ends the sitting without fixing a date for the House to meet again.

The decision not to prorogue the House has fuelled speculation about the possibility of the government reconvening the session at short notice to push through the legislative package on delimitation and operationalisation of the women’s reservation law. Claims about the government’s plans, however, are speculative rather than based on established parliamentary decisions.

On Tuesday, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh had alleged in a post on X, “82 days have gone by since the Monsoon Session of Parliament was adjourned sine die and it has still not been prorogued.…