Parliament’s monsoon session deferred to Aug 1 (Lead)
June 21st, 2011 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Parliament’s monsoon session has been deferred, and it will now begin Aug 1, it was announced here Tuesday.
“The monsoon session will be held Aug 1 to Sep 8,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister P.K. Bansal told reporters.
The monsoon session generally begins in mid-July.
Asked if the contentious anti-corruption Lokpal bill will be introduced during the five-week session, Bansal said: “The government is serious about all business.”
The session is expected to be tumultuous as opposition is likely to train its guns on the government over inflation and corruption.
The opposition may also raise the draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on approving an increase in capital expenditure by RIL for developing gas fields in the Krishna Godavari basin.
Apart from the Lokpal bill, two other bills likely to be taken up during the session are the Food Security Bill and the Land Acquisition Bill.
The session may also see another attempt to table the women’s reservation bill in the Lok Sabha.
Speaker Meira Kumar has convened a meeting of leaders of all political parties Wednesday to discuss the bill, which has been passed by the Rajya Sabha.
The budget session of parliament, which began Feb 25 and was to last till May 7, was curtailed March 25 account of the April-May elections in five states.
Earlier, the winter session in November-December was washed out after the government repeatedly refused to accede to an opposition demand for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the allocation of 2G spectrum that is said to have caused a colossal loss to the national exchequer. The committee was later established.
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