The all-party meeting, ahead of the winter session of Parliament, will be held on Sunday at 11 am. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend the meeting, reported news agency ANI.
The winter session will begin from November 29. "The Seventh Session of Seventeenth Lok Sabha will commence on Monday, the 29th November, 2021. Subject to exigencies of Government Business, the Session is likely to conclude on Thursday, December 23, 2021," stated an official communique from the Lok Sabha secretariat.
The session will have around 20 sittings.
The parliamentary executive meeting of the BJP will also take place on Sunday. According to media reports, the PM is expected to attend this meeting as well.
The winter session assumes significance in the wake of Modi's announcement of withdrawal of the three controversial farm laws. The laws will be formally repealed during the winter session. The agitating farmers sitting at three sites on Delhi's borders since November last year had said they will stay put till Parliament repeals the laws.
The session is also of importance as it comes ahead of assembly elections in five states, including the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh. Inflation, rise in fuel prices, rise in prices of edible oil, attacks on civilians in Kashmir, the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which farmers were killed, and the farmers' protests against the three agri laws are among the issues likely to be raised by the Opposition to corner the government.
—With PTI inputs
