New Delhi:24 NOV 2024 :A meeting of the Government with Floor Leaders of all Political Parties has been held under the Chairmanship of Shri Rajnath Singh, Union Minister of Defence today, before the commencement of the Winter Session of Parliament, 2024. Shri Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs welcomed all in the meeting of the floor leaders of both the Houses of Parliament. In his opening address, he informed that the Winter Session of Parliament will commence on Monday, the 25th November, 2024, and subject to exigencies of government business, the session may conclude on Friday, the 20th of December, 2024. The Session will provide 19 sittings spread over 26 days. He also informed that tentatively 16 items of legislative business and 1 item of financial business have been identified for being taken up during this session.
The Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs further stated that the Government is always ready to discuss any issue as permitted under the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business by respective Presiding Officers on the floor of the House. He also requested all party leaders for active cooperation and support for the smooth functioning of the two Houses of Parliament. The Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs also informed the leaders that there will be no sitting on 26th November as this year, we will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly in 1949, which yearlong activities across Nation will follow. The meeting was also attended by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda, who is also Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law & Justice and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Dr. L.
Concluding the meeting, Shri Rajnath Singh, Union Minister for Defence, thanked all the leaders for flagging important issues in the meeting, which have been noted. He also stated that Government is ready for discussion on all these issues subject to the rules of the respective Houses of Parliament and the decisions of the respective Presiding Officers. Murugan.