NEW DELHI: The government’s success in passing the GST bill in the Rajya Sabha will depend on its skills to cut through Congress strategy in the House and ability to woo sections of the Opposition. As ET reported on Wednesday, the arithmetic in the Rajya Sabha provides the government with a window of opportunity.The government started testing the waters on Thursday, when a group of BJP MPs demanded suspension of Congress MPs from the Rajya Sabha too. Sensing that the government may try to bring up the bill on Friday, the Congress asked all its MPs to be in the RS beginning Friday. It also issued a similar whip effective Monday to its LS MPs, anticipating the diluted land bill.The demand of BJP MPs saw the Samajwadi Party coming to Congress aid. SP’s Naresh Agarwal has given a notice, under Rule 267, seeking action against 30 BJP MPs who made the demand. “These 30 BJP members have mounted a written pressure on the Chair for suspension of Congress MPs from the House. I have given a notice against this behaviour seeking action against these 30 members for trying to pressure the Chair,” Agarwal told ET.The government will have to rally almost all regional parties to back the GST bill and neutralise AIADMK, to have a fighting chance to secure a two-thirds majority without Congress backing for the bill. The Congress, on the other hand, is banking on the rule that bars voting “when the House is not in order”. It is determined to carry on with disruption even if the government takes up the bill. “In principle, Congress supports GST. But, we are convinced that what RS select committee and Cabinet have cleared, after rejecting our suggested amendments, is a flawed version of the GST bill which is not in the interest of the country,” Congress spokesman Randeep Surjewala told ET.Another senior Congress leader warned: “The suspensions of some MPs by the presiding officers of both the Houses during the Telangana bill were done after an overwhelming consensus among parties, not like how the NDA government has brazenly done in the Lok Sabha and is plotting to do in Rajya Sabha.” CPM chief Sitaram Yechury, too, cautioned the government: “The rules make it clear that a Constitution amendment bill should be voted on with at least half of the House present and with two-thirds of them voting for the bill. The bill can’t be a voted upon when the House is not in order (due to protests),” he said.