New Delhi: Amid speculation that the Union government may convene a special session of parliament later this month, Congress president and leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday (October 16) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reiterated his demand for an all-party meeting. This is Kharge’s fourth letter to Modi demanding an all-party meeting to discuss any proposal for a delimitation bill before it is brought for consideration in Parliament.“Please do not once again try and bulldoze a far-reaching Constitutional Amendment Bill through Parliament as you attempted earlier and that met its well-deserved fate,” said Kharge in his letter.In his letter Kharge said that it was “unprecedented” that the monsoon session of parliament is yet to be prorogued.“It has already been 64 since the monsoon session of parliament was adjourned sine die on August 13, 2026 and both Houses of Parliament are yet to be prorogued. This scenario is unprecedented,” he wrote.The Wire has reported that while proroguing parliament is the prerogative of the Union government, opposition parties question the delay, alleging that the Modi government is looking to shore up its numbers and reintroduce its contentious Delimitation Bill to expand the Lok Sabha.Kharge said that he had first written to Modi on April 11 to convene an all-party meeting before bringing a constitutional amendment on Delimitation but the government had not done so.“Thereafter you made the Bills public on the late evening of April 14, 2026 and convened a special session on April 16, 2026,” he wrote.The bill was defeated in parliament on April 17 by a united opposition when it failed to get a two-third majority of the members present and voting, in the first defeat for a constitutional amendment brought by the Modi government. Since then the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved to shore up its numbers in parliament through a series of defections in the TMC, AAP, Shiv Sena (UBT). While speculation was rife that once it has the numbers the government will reintroduce the bill, it has not yet done so. Opposition parties have earlier questioned whether the monsoon session has not been prorogued because the government is moving to re-introduce the bill through a special session.In his letter Kharge said that he had written on July 16 and August 27 repeating the request for an all-party meeting.“I am now doing so for a fourth time. Please convene an all-party meeting to have a detailed discussion on your new proposals before they are finalised for consideration in parliament,” he wrote.“All political parties must get sufficient time to deliberate among themselves, with each other and with all stakeholders. Please do not once again try and bulldoze a far-reaching Constitutional Amendment Bill through Parliament as you attempted earlier and that met its well-deserved fate.”