Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Thursday that the central government will hold an all-party meeting on July 19, ahead of the monsoon session 2025.
Rijiju said, “The Central Government called an all-party meeting about the monsoon session of Parliament on July 19. The monsoon session of Parliament starts from July 21 and will run till August 21.”
The monsoon session of Parliament will be held from 21 July to 21 August. There will be no Parliament meeting on 13 and 14 August due to Independence Day celebrations.
Earlier in a post on X, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju wrote, “The Manas of India has approved the government’s proposal to call the monsoon session of Parliament from July 21 to August 21, 2025. There will be no person on 13th and 14 August in view of the Independence Day celebrations.”
This comes amidst the demand to call a particular session of Parliament on the arrival of all party delegations to discuss various issues by opposition leaders, especially about the developments that were after the Gustli Pahgam terror attack.
The upcoming monsoon session will be the first Parliament session after Operation Sindoor, which was launched by India on 7 May in response to a terrorist attack in Pahgam in Jammu and Kashmir, claiming 26 lives.
The budget session of Parliament began on 31 January this year. Important law was passed in the budget session, including the Waqf Amendment Bill.
Rijiju held a press conference after the end of the budget session, stating that a total of 9 sitings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were found in the first part of the budget session. In the second part of the session, 17 sat in both houses. During the entire budget session, overall, 26 sat.
During the second part of the session, the demand for grant of individual ministries of Railways, Water Power and Agriculture and Farmers Welfare was discussed and voted in the Lok Sabha. Finally, the demands of grants of the remaining ministries/ departments were kept on Friday, March 21, 2025 for the House’s vote. The concerned appropriation bill was also introduced, managed and passed by the Lok Sabha at 21.03.2025.
Appropriation bills related to the second and final batch of supplementary demands for grants for the year 2024-25; Additional demand for grant for the year 2021-22 and supplementary demand for grant of Manipur for the year 2024-25 and a grant for the year 2025-26 in relation to the state of Manipur was also passed in the Lok Sabha on 11.03.2025.
The Finance Bill, 2025 was passed by the Lok Sabha on 25 March.
The functioning of the ministries of education, railway, health and family welfare and home affairs was discussed in the Rajya Sabha. (AI)
