According to an expert, prorogation of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha means the government cannot promulgate an ordinance that can negate striking down of the Electoral Bond Scheme by the Supreme Court.
The Apex Court struck down the Electoral Bond Scheme as ‘un-constitutional’ and asked the issuer bank to submit details of bond purchasers to the Election Commission of India.
Key points
- It is not necessary that the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha should be summoned simultaneously or on the same date. (First Session of two Houses convened after constitution of new Lok Sabha are normally summoned on different dates.).
- Termination of a session of the House by an Order by the President under the above constitutional provision is called ‘prorogation’.
- Under Article 85(2) of the Constitution, the President may from time to time prorogue Houses or either House of Parliament.
- There are instances when the House was prorogued on the same day on which it was adjourned sine die.
- It is also not necessary that the two Houses are prorogued on the same day.
