Cong CMs to discuss land Bill amendments

The land Bill parliamentary joint committee proceedings, to be held twice a week from Monday onwards, are set to be interesting with the Opposition, particularly the Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) members, unlikely to deliver on their earlier threat of boycotting the panel to protest the government having repromulgated the land ordinance.

The Congress chief ministers will hold a meeting on Tuesday to reach a consensus about their respective state governments’ views on the proposed amendments to the 2013 Land Act. At the first meeting of the joint committee on May 29, the opposition members had insisted that the committee should seek views of state governments on the proposed amendments just as the Centre had sought their views on lacunae, if any, in the 2013 Act.