July 20 is the working target for the Monsoon Session of Parliament, and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla already has two politically explosive decisions on his desk before the first bell rings.
20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs want to merge into the Nationalist Congress Party of India (NCPI), while 6 Shiv Sena (UBT) lawmakers want to join the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction.
Birla is expected to seek a legal opinion from the law ministry and study...