Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present in Parliament for the remaining three days of the Winter Session, said Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday. The Bharatiya Janata Party also directed all of its MPs to be present in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for the next three days, to present a united front against the Opposition in a debate on demonetisation.

Naidu said Modi was present in Parliament every day except when he was not in Delhi. “He is sitting in his room and watching all that is happening. As and when there is a request, he comes to the House,” he said, adding that the Opposition was “changing goalpost” on the matter of holding a debate on demonetisation. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had allowed a discussion on the currency ban, but the Opposition had disrupted it, he added.

Opposition parties have been demanding that Modi be present in Parliament to speak up on demonetisation. The prime minister has not addressed the House yet on the matter. On December 10, he had claimed he was not being allowed to speak in the Lower House.

The Winter Session, which will conclude on December 16, has been a complete washout, with President Pranab Mukherjee and veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani both criticising the repeated disruption of Parliament proceedings. “For God’s sake, do your job,” Mukherjee had said last week. On December 7, Advani had said, “Neither the Speaker nor the parliamentary affairs minister is interested in running the House.”