The government may introduce the Land Acquisition Bill this Monsoon Session, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha during Question Hour on Thursday. “The Bill is in public domain to get suggestions and comments. I am in touch with the chief ministers of states and also leaders of political parties... Hopefully, we will bring the Bill in this session ,” said Ramesh replying to a spate of questions. There was a furore in the House when Ramesh referred to incidents of firing over land acquisition in Uttar Pradesh in response to a supplementary by Dara Singh Chauhan. The BSP leader retaliated by asking him “what happened in Haryana and Maharashtra earlier”. Ramesh said there was a dilemma over implementation: whether to make the law operational with a retrospective effect or from a prospective date. Normally, a new legislation is implemented with a prospective effect although sometimes, like in the Forest Rights Act, it was applied retrospectively with the cut-off date. “There are suggestions that this new law that we bring should have a retrospective effect with the cut-off date. We will examine its implications. We do not want controversies,” he said. “Land is a state subject while land acquisition is a concurrent subject.”