It is now an open secret that many MPs were reluctant to attend parliament for just one more day, especially after the weekend. And things did go their way as Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the Lok Sabha sine die, highly agitated over the undisciplined behaviour of MPs.
But did she have an inkling that proceedings in parliament would be rocked by the Telangana issue?
She had already sent out invitations to the press corps for high tea on Friday – a customary rite reserved for the end of the session. As scribes tucked into goodies in the banquet hall of the parliament library, they wondered about her “prescience”!
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