LS Speaker calls all-party meeting today

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has convened an all-party meeting today to discuss the smooth functioning of the house during the Budget Session beginning tomorrow. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu has also called separate all-party meetings. The meetings are significant amid possibility of the session being stormy. The opposition parties are gearing up to raise the issues of JNU row, and suicide of a Hyderabad University



student among others to corner the government. On the other hand, the government is keen to push its legislative agenda including the GST and Real Estate Bills. During the session, the Rail Budget will be presented on 25th and General Budget on 29th of this month. Since it is the first session of the new calendar year, it will begin with the address of President Pranab Mukherjee to the joint sitting of the two Houses.