The Budget session of the Lok Sabha, which was to conclude on Friday, is to be extended by three more days and will now end on May 13 with the Modi Government set to push the contentious Land Acquisition Bill.
With this, the end of the second part of the budget session of the Lower House will coincide with that of the Rajya Sabha whose sittings also comes to an end on May 13. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCP) chaired by Rajnath Singh.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said after the meeting that a number of legislations were pending for passage and hence the CCP had decided to extend the session in Lok Sabha for three more working days till May 13.
“The CCPA met today and decided that the session in Lok Sabha should be extended for three more days on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,” he said.
The government’s move to extend the session did not find favour at the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) yesterday, where even allies like Shiv Sena opposed it. When the proposal was floated by Rudy at the BAC meeting, headed by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, several political parties also opposed it.
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