All-party meeting ahead of special Parliament session

The special session of the parliament starts on September 18. File pic/PTI

A meeting of the floor leaders of all political parties has been convened on September 17, a day before the start of a five-day Parliament session, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday.

The invitation for the meeting has been sent to all concerned leaders through e-mail, Joshi posted on social media platform X. On August 31, Joshi had announced a "special session" of Parliament for five days from September 18, but did not spell out any specific agenda for it. "Amid Amrit Kaal, looking forward to having fruitful discussions and debate in Parliament," Joshi had posted on X.

With no specific agenda announced so far for the session, speculations have been doing the rounds if it could be about women's reservation bill, uniform civil code, simultaneous polls or other subjects. It is also expected that the Parliament proceedings will move from the old building to the new one during this session.

‘Spell the agenda now'

Opposition parties have slammed the government for not spelling out the agenda of the session even with just a few days left for its commencement.

"TWO working days to go before the #SpecialParliamentSession begins and still not a word on the agenda Only TWO people know! And we still call ourselves a parliamentary democracy," TMC Rajya Sabha party leader Derek O'Brien posted on X, formerly Twitter.

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Jairam Ramesh, the Congress general secretary said in a post on X, "Today is September 13. The five-day special session of Parliament will commence five days from now and nobody - barring One Man (ok, perhaps the Other One too) - has any sense of the agenda."

Ramesh also listed several previous occasions when special sessions or special sittings were held and the list of business was known in advance.

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