Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

New Delhi: After long delay, finally the Central government on Friday announced the dates for the Winter Session of Parliament.

Both houses of Parliament would convene for the Winter Session from December 15, 2017 to January 05, 2018, for 14 days in total.

The delay in announcing the dates for Parliament session triggered a war of words between the BJP and Congress. Gandhi said, “… in order to avoid the questions and answer ahead of Gujarat elections, the government has taken the extraordinary step of not holding a winter session when it should be held.”

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Union Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters that dates of the session will not clash with the assembly elections in Gujarat. “We are going to ensure that a regular winter session is held but we will make sure that the parliament session and election dates don’t overlap,” said Jaitley.

The dates were announced in the middle of criticism from the Opposition parties, which had claimed that the government was intentionally delaying the Winter Session to avoid being on the backfoot at a time when the polls were underway in the states of Gujarat, While Himachal has already voted on November 9.

By brijesh