New Delhi: The Special Session of Parliament will start in the old building on September 18 and will be later moved to the new building on September 19 on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, reported news agency ANI
The five-day special session, scheduled to be held from 18 to 22 September will skip Question Hour, Zero Hour and private members’ business, a notice by the Lok Sabha Secretariat said.
Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi on September 6 wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking details of the government’s agenda for the upcoming special session of the Parliament. Gandhi said the session was called without any prior consultation with the Opposition.
“You have convened a special five-day session of the Parliament beginning 18 September, 2023, I must point out that this Special Session has been convened without any consultation with other political parties None of us have any idea of its agenda,” read the letter
On August 31, Pralhad Joshi, the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, announced that a “special session of Parliament would be held from September 18 to 22
Generally, three parliamentary sessions are held in a year-Budget Mignon and Winter sessions.