'Govt Ready For Structured Debate': Pralhad Joshi After All-Party Meet Ahead Of Winter Session

The all-party meeting came ahead of the winter session of Parliament, which will begin on December 4 and continue until December 22.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi

Source : PTI

Parliament Winter Session: The all-party meeting that was being held at the Parliament Library building on Saturday has come to an end. The meeting came ahead of the winter session of Parliament, which will begin on December 4 and continue until December 22. After the meeting, Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pralhad Joshi said that the meeting was attended by 30 leaders of 23 parties. The Parliamentary Affairs Minister said that the winter session of Parliament will begin from December 4, and there will be 15 sittings. He further stated that the government is ready for discussions on all the issues in a structured debate.   

"From Dec 4, the winter session of Parliament will begin...There are 15 sitting...We had called an all-party meeting today...23 parties and 30 leaders attended the meeting...Zero hour has been happening regularly...We requested that the atmosphere should be maintained for structured debates. The discussions should be held following rules and procedures...The govt is ready to hold discussions on all the issues...The govt is fully ready for structured debate," Joshi said.

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Who All Were Present 

Centre

• Pralhad Joshi
• Rajnath Singh
• Arjun Ram Meghwal

Congress

• Jairam Ramesh
• Pramod Tiwari
• Gaurav Gogoi
  

TMC

• Sudip Bandyopadhyay
• Derek O'Brien

JMM

• Mahua Maji

SP

• S. T. Hasan

BSP

• Girish Chandra

NPP

• Agatha Sangma

JDU

• Dileshwar Kamath

RSP

• N. K. Premachandran

NCP

• Fouzia Khan

Aam Aadmi Party

• ND Gupta

Parliament Winter Session

The winter session of Parliament is set to commence on December 4 (Monday) a day after the declaration of assembly election results in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. As momentum gathers for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections, the assembly election results on December 3 are being seen as a precursor to what can be the next general elections. In light of that, the Centre is all geared up for its last winter session of parliament in this tenure. Certain key bills are in the pipeline which the Narendra Modi-led NDA government would like to clear in this upcoming session.

The government has listed 18 bills, including two to extend provisions of the Women's Reservation Act to Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry and three to replace the criminal laws, during the Session. The Winter Session of Parliament will continue till December 22.

According to a bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Wednesday, the Centre has also planned to introduce a bill to increase the strength of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly from 107 to 114 in an attempt to provide representation to Kashmiri migrants, displaced persons from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Scheduled Tribes.