New Delhi: The monsoon session of parliament has recorded the longest sine die adjournment in history, as even after 88 days, it is yet to be prorogued, the formal act of the session ending. While the constitution does not lay down any specific time frame for the President to prorogue Parliament after a session has been adjourned sine die, parliamentary convention has been that sessions are prorogued within a few days.Opposition parties have alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has not yet prorogued parliament because it is looking to shore up its numbers and re-introduce its contentious Lok Sabha expansion-led Delimitation Bill which was defeated in April during a special session.Last month, Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju had written to Congress president and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and said that there is “no constitutional requirement prescribing a specific period within which a House must be prorogued following its adjournment sine die.”Rijiju said in the letter that not proroguing does not “give rise to any constitutional or procedural impropriety or irregularity” and cited 2008 when the Lok Sabha was kept unprorogued for 87 days.In a statement on Monday (November 9), Congress MP and the party’s general secretary communication Jairam Ramesh said that “unlike in the past including in 2008” the gap in proroguing parliament has been to give time to Union home minister Amit Shah to “manipulate” a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha.Ramesh said that in 2008 when Lok Sabha was kept unprorogued it was by consensus of all parties while “unlike in the past including in 2008, this record has been set to give time to the Union Home Minister to somehow manipulate a super-tainted two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha to get the dangerous and destructive Delimitation Bills passed.”“The unity and solidarity of the Opposition which defeated his diabolical designs convincingly on April 17, 2026 will prevail once again if he repeats his trademark bulldozer tactics,” he said.Also read: Adjourned in August, Monsoon Session Yet to be Prorogued 32 Days Later: What this MeansRamesh said that Kharge had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi four times in the past six months requesting an all-party meeting on Delimitation to discuss all proposals on any legislation before it is introduced in parliament; Modi had refused to do so.Prorogation means the end of a session, while an adjournment is an interruption in the course of a single session. Adjournment sine die means termination of the sitting of the House without specifying or fixing any definite date for its next sitting.Under Article 85, (1) of the Constitution, the President may summon each House of parliament but it also provides that the time between two sessions should not exceed six months.Article 85(2) further provides that the President may from time to time prorogue the Houses or either House” and can also dissolve the Lok Sabha.The Wire had reported in September that not proroguing parliament is unusual, and if the session is not prorogued, the winter session which is due in a few weeks will be continuation of the monsoon session and not a new session.“It is unusual for the Houses not to be prorogued because the parliament sessions are predetermined, in that the government decides the duration of the session, the business it wants to transact in that time. Following that, the proposal goes to the President through the Lok Sabha Speaker, and the President then gives the assent, following which the summons are issued by the secretary generals,” former Lok Sabha secretary general P.D.T Achary had said to The Wire.