New Delhi: With issues like corruption and price rise expected to take the centre stage, Congress apprehends a difficult Monsoon session of Parliament beginning on Monday.
A senior party leader, who declined to be identified, admitted that matters could be tough for the Cong-led coalition if the Opposition presses for motion ensuring voting on issues like price rise and corruption.
There is a growing realisation in the ruling party about the Left and the Right making common cause on these issues.
The leader conceded that the Congress is also in a fix on the issue of Telangana with over a dozen MPs from the region tendering resignation to Speaker Meira Kumar.
Kumar, who has convened an all-party meeting on Sunday, has made it known that she may take a decision on the resignations ahead of the session beginning on Monday.
The ruling alliance does not have a majority in the Rajya Sabha and nor a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha.
There have been issues galore before the five-week session unlike any time in the recent past as charges in the 2G spectrum scam have provided fodder to the Opposition, indicating that it could be trouble from the word go.
Mumbai serial blasts, Maoist violence, black money stashed abroad, Telangana, land acquisition and farmers' rights are some other prominent issues that are likely to be raised.
With a lot of issues generating heat, the talk in the government as also Opposition circles is that at least the first week of the session could witness uproar and pandemonium.
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