After the backdrop of India’s participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Republic Day celebration and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first 2018 Mann ki Baat, The Government of India is back at it again with the 2018/19 Budget beginning today.
On the agenda of the session is to pass three essential bills. The bills are Rights to Children to Free and Compulsory Education, 2017, Codes of Wages Bill, 2017 and The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 related to triple talaq. The government is expected to also table 28 bills in the Lok Sabha, and 39 bills in Rajya Sabha. It will also discuss the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill of 2016 and the Surrogacy Bill of 2016 as they have been long pending issues. Out of all the bills to be discussed and in the theme of Modi’s Mann ki Baat speech on women, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill of 2017 is regarded the most significant.
Criteria for the Budget Session
As tradition has prescribed, President Ram Nath Kovind through a joint sitting between the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will open the session with an address then table the economic survey in the two Houses.
According to plans, Arjun Jaitley, the Finance Minister is scheduled to present the current National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime’s full budget by the end of the sessions which is likely to be on February 1, 2018. The NDA is dominant of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regarded as the most extensive ruling party in government.
Politicians met on Sunday to deliberate on the issues they are to discuss today. On top of the Agenda was the triple talaq bill which as asserted by some government officials, needs to have a consensus from all of them. A unified consensus will get the important bill passed. PM Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley (both Union ministers), Ananth Kumar (Parliamentary Affairs Minister) among other politicians were part of the meeting.
Participants in the meeting averred that PM Modi declared that the government would accord significance to vital issues raised by parties during the Budget Session on Monday. Narendra urged the leaders on Sunday to create an atmosphere constructive for national good so that problems can be discussed swiftly during the session.
The session is termed successful if it achieves its mandate as stipulated by the Law.
