Parliament's Winter Session to be held from December 15 to January 5
Politics | November 24, 2017 13:45 ISTThe Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday met to decide the dates of the Winter Session.
The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday met to decide the dates of the Winter Session.
The development comes in the backdrop of opposition parties criticism of the government's decision to delay the Winter Session which usually begins in mid-November.
Sonia Gandhi had on Monday accused PM Narendra Modi of sabotaging the Winter Session on flimsy grounds by "locking the temple of democracy".
A ministerial committee has been constituted to frame a law and the Union Government has proposed to bring this legislation in the forthcoming Winter Session of Parliament.
Jaitley said the opposition party, when in power, had also delayed a session in 2011 and even earlier because the sittings coincided with election campaigns.
"The Modi government in its arrogance has cast a dark shadow on India's parliamentary democracy by sabotaging the Winter session of Parliament on flimsy grounds," Sonia Gandhi told the party's highest decision-making body.
The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) was likely to meet on Friday to take a call on holding the Winter Session of Parliament. The meeting, however, did not take place.
In July, AG KK Venugopal had told SC that NRIs could not be allowed to vote by merely changing the rules and a Bill was needed to be introduced in Parliament.
While a final call is yet to be taken by the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, two senior government functionaries said the session could be held in November end and may last a week or ten days.
The winter session of Parliament is ending today though the chaos continued to reign in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha yesterday following continuous uproar on issues such as demonetization and Agusta Westland case.
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi today chaired a meeting at 10, Janpath here to discuss the strategy ahead of the Winter Session of the Parliament which begins tomorrow.
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