The winter session of parliament is likely to be called on December 15 and end on January 5, government sources said today.
The opposition has been scathing in its criticism of the government’s delaying of the end-of-year meeting of parliament because Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top union ministers are busy campaigning in Gujarat for next month’s election.
Results from the PM’s home state, along with those of Himachal Pradesh, where voting was completed earlier this month, will be declared on December 18.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley retaliated that it’s not uncommon for elections to push back parliament sessions; he said the Congress was no stranger to this practice when it was in power and promised that the winter session would be called “very shortly”.
