Ten days after sine die, still no prorogation gazette; Congress asks if Shah is hunting 352 votes for a delimitation amendment.

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die on 13 August 2026. As of Sunday morning, 23 August, no prorogation notification had been issued. Ten days had passed without a gazette closing the Monsoon session. Prorogation is a President’s order under Article 85(2) on the advice of the Prime Minister. Absence of that order is a procedural fact. It is not, by itself, a notified special session.

Congress general secretary for communications Jairam Ramesh posted that the usual gap between sine die adjournment and prorogation is two to four days, sometimes the same day, and that ten days had passed with no information on prorogation. He asked whether Union Home Minister Amit Shah was still seeking a two-thirds majority to pass a delimitation-linked Constitutional amendment in a special session. That is a political question. It is not a notified fact. No gazette of a special sitting was reported as of Sunday. This desk will not treat a special session as notified.

Ramesh himself noted that the 2015 Monsoon gap was twenty-eight days and the 2021 gap twenty days, while alleging those earlier gaps had no “diabolical moves.” A political allegation about motive is not a gazette. The April 17 Budget-session floor vote on the Constitution amendment linked to delimitation and women’s reservation is the notified result this desk will keep: 528 members of Parliament voted; 298 were for, 230 against; 352 were needed for two-thirds. The Bill failed.

The Congress Working Committee has demanded a freeze of Lok Sabha strength at 543 and of the present state-wise allocation for twenty-five years, and thirty-three per cent women’s reservation from the 2029 Lok Sabha polls. At the Southern Zonal Council in Mahabalipuram on 21 August, chaired by Shah, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay urged legislative assurance that no State loses percentage share for population stabilisation. Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar demanded retaining 543 seats for twenty-five years. Those are political demands at a zonal council. They are not a passed Constitutional amendment.

New Delhi’s Parliament is the dateline. Form B and any poll date are not notified. Until a prorogation gazette or a special-session notification appears, the public ledger is ten days without prorogation after a 13 August sine die, a Congress question about a hunt for 352 votes, an April floor defeat of 298–230 against a two-thirds bar of 352, and southern Chief Ministers asking that seat share not be cut for population stabilisation. The special session remains unnotified.