Union Budget: Govt calls all party meeting to seek views on rescheduling budget session

The government has called an all-party meeting on Thursday to seek views about a possible rescheduling of the Union Budget session in view of the coming Assembly polls.

Elections to Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, and Puducherry, are due by April. Several members of Parliament (MPs) have conveyed to the government that their attendance might be intermittent in Parliament as the session would coincide with campaigning and voting in these states. The five states send as many as 115 MPs to the Lok Sabha.

The cabinet committee on political affairs, headed by Union home minister Rajnath Singh, would also meet on Thursday to decide on the Budget session. The all-party meeting is scheduled before the cabinet committee’s meeting.