The crucial Budget session of Parliament has begun on Tuesday. The session is likely to be a stormy one as Jawaharlal Nehru University row and Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula suicide case will rock the House. Three hitherto unknown University students – Rohith Vemula, Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid are expected to bring Parliament to a halt when the lawmakers meet to discuss the annual Budget and other things.
After a complete washout of the Monsoon and Winter session, the opposition is up in arms to corner the government in Parliament. The Narendra Modi government is trying hard to bargain with the opposition to get important Goods and Service Tax Bill and Real Estate Bill passed in the session.
After President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to both the Houses on Tuesday, the government will present Railway Budget and the General Budget on February 25 and February 29 respectively.
The government has a heavy legislative agenda to push through in this session. A list of 74 items of business has been compiled by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs on the basis of responses received from various ministries and departments which, according to sources, contain 62 legislative items and 12 financial items.
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