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Parliament set for stormy monsoon session as all agree to disagree

A joint letter from opposition's Lok Sabha MPs to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was a proof of increasing trust deficit between the ruling BJP and Opposition parties

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PM Narendra Modi with Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge after an all-party meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi

On the eve of the monsoon session of Parliament, the Narendra Modi government and a united Opposition spewed homilies about the need for Parliament to function, but spent the rest of the day writing the session’s epitaph.

With assembly polls to key north Indian states round the corner and the Lok Sabha elections not far away, neither side was willing to surrender an inch. If the prime minister and Bharatiya Janata Party have escalated their attack on the Congress and other opposition parties in the last few days, the Congress-led Opposition on Tuesday said it planned to move a