New Delhi: The Monsoon session of Parliament will be held from July 21 to August 12, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday.
The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has recommended the dates, he told reporters here.
The announcement by Rijiju comes against the backdrop of a demand for special session by opposition leaders to discuss Operation Sindoor.
Under the rules, all issue can be discussed during the Monsoon session, the Minister said responding to a question on the opposition’s demand.
Soon after Rijiju’s announcement, the Congress said that the fact that the government was giving out the dates 47 days in advance showed that the Modi government was “running away” from the demand of an immediate special session.
In a post on X, Congress general secretary, communications, Jairam Ramesh, said normally the dates for a Parliament session are announced a few days before it commences, but “never have the dates been declared 47 days before a session is due”. “This has been done solely to run away from the demand being made repeatedly by the Indian National Congress and the INDIA parties for an immediate special session to discuss the brutal Pahalgam attacks and the failure to bring the terrorists who did the killings themselves to justice, the impacts of Operation Sindoor and its blatant politicisation, the revelations of the CDS (Chief of Defence Staff) in Singapore (over losses suffered by India), the hyphenation of India and Pakistan, the embedding of China in the Pakistan Air Force, the continuous claims of President Trump on mediation, and the numerous failures of our foreign policy and diplomatic engagements.”
Parliament session from July 21 to August 12: Rijiju
