No Winter Session of Parliament

The winter session of Parliament will not be held this year in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and that it will be appropriate to convene the budget session in January next year.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The power to convene a session of Parliament rests with the government.

The decision is taken by the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, which currently comprises nine ministers, including those for Defence, Home, Finance, and Law.

The decision of the Committee is formalised by the President, in whose name MPs are summoned to meet for a session.

The summoning of Parliament is specified in Article 85 of the Constitution. This provision specified that the central legislature had to be summoned to meet at least once a year, and that not more than 12 months could elapse between two sessions.

India does not have a fixed parliamentary calendar. By convention, Parliament meets for three sessions in a year.