The government's move of introducing the food security ordinance has expectedly irked the Opposition. Both the BJP and the Left have lashed out at the government for taking the ordinance route rather than introducing the critical bill through a debate in Parliament. Meanwhile, the ordinace will be put before President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday (July 4).

In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Sanjay Jha, Spokesperson, Congress; Piyush Goyal, Natl Treasurer & MP Rajya Sabha, BJP; Bharat Kumar Raut, MP, Rajya Sabha, Shiv Sena; Sankarshan Thakur, Roving Editor, The Telegraph and Kamal Faruqui, National Secy, SP -- discuss whether, UPA might call a general election by the end of this year along with the state elections?