Annual Budget Session 2023: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar held an all-party meeting at his residence in Delhi on Sunday. VP Dhankhar has called this meeting before the second phase of the annual budget session of 2023-24. The second phase of the budget session will begin on Monday. The session, which began on January 31, is likely to end on April 6.
Second Phase of Annual Budget Session 2023-24
Parliament is meeting after a month-long recess that allowed various parliamentary panels to examine allocations made in the Union Budget for various ministries. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the second batch of supplementary demands for grants for 2022-23 on Monday. She will also present the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir’s budget for the year 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha. The UT is currently under the central governance. The Lok Sabha’s order paper for Monday lists two items.
Opposition leaders will meet on Monday
Opposition leaders will hold a meeting on Monday morning to firm up their floor strategy for the second phase of the budget session as they gear up to corner the government on issues such as alleged misuse of investigative agencies and the Adani controversy.
Sources said the opposition leaders are expected to meet at the office of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in the Parliament complex around 10 am. He said that soon after this the Congress MPs would assemble at the office of the Congress Parliamentary Party President to discuss the party’s strategy.
points to be raised during the meeting
Opposition parties are preparing to corner the government on issues like alleged misuse of investigative agencies to target their leaders, allegations against the Adani group, border standoff with China, price rise and unemployment.
The Congress has been demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the allegations related to the Adani group.
Congress MP K Suresh said his party will continue to raise the Adani-Hindenburg issue as the government is yet to respond to the controversy.
However, the focus is on the alleged misuse of investigative agencies, with RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family facing the heat from central agencies in the alleged land-job scam.
Left parties register strong protest against central government and investigative agencies
Parties like Samajwadi Party, Left parties and DMK have also registered their strong protest against the alleged assault on the federal structure and misuse of institutions.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of “devious attempts to murder democracy” by misusing investigative agencies against opposition leaders, as he criticized the ED’s searches at the premises of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad’s family. criticized the Centre.
(With inputs from PTI)
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