24 Wednesday Jun 2015
Posted in General
The next session of Parliament is expected to start on 21st July 2015 and may continue four weeks. The notification is expected to be issued within a few days.
This is going to be a stormy session with so many controversies, including Lalit Gate, Land Bill, Amendments to labour laws etc.
27 Monday Oct 2014
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The Winter Session of the Parliament will start on 24th November and will end on 23rd December 2014. Many bills are expected to be placed in this session.
BJP, after its win in the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections may become more aggressive in implementing the anti-worker neo-liberal policies and handing over the PSUs to the corporates and MNCs.
23 Monday Jun 2014
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The Budget Session of Parliament will start on 7th July and will end on 14th August 2014 as per the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA). General Budget will be presented on 10th July.
The session is going to be stormy. Though the NDA government has got monstrous majority, the opposition is going to put the government in the dock on the huge increase in the railways passenger and freight charges, increase in gas price, increase of prices of essential commodities etc. No effort has been made to stop the price rise.
The session will be a test for the Congress also. How they are going to attack the NDA government, which is only aggressively implementing their own neo-liberal policies?
The Left parties also have been cut to size in the elections, but they can continue their earlier and committed positions, for which there need not be any change.
The working class is waiting. Leaders of all the 11 Central Trade Unions have made it clear to the Finance Minister when he met them as part of the pre-budget discussion, that there is no compromise on the 10 Points demands they have raised before the government earlier and they have to be accepted and implemented. These include bringing down price line, minimum wage of Rs. 10,000 for contract workers, no disinvestment of PSUs, increasing of jobs etc.
The common people will be watching which way the new government is moving. Let the government take positive decisions for the country.
29 Thursday May 2014
Posted in General
New Delhi, 29th May: The inaugural session of the new Lok Sabha will commence on June 4, and end on June 11. This was recommended today by the Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet.
The first two days of the inaugural session, parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters, will be used to swear the new MPs in. The Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha will be elected on June 6. President Pranab Mukherjee will address the joint session of the two Houses of Parliament on June 9, and the next two days have been set aside to hold a discussion on the Presidential address. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give his reply to the motion of thanks on the Presidential address at the end of the discussion. (Courtesy: NDTV)
04 Sunday Aug 2013
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners
The government wants to being FDI in pension and increase FDI in Insurance sectors. The European and US imperialists have been continuously pressurising the government of India for the same so that their MNCs who have got huge funds with them can invest and reap maximum profits. During the visit of Finance Minister P.Chidambaram and other ministers in US, they have assured the foreign investors that the government is seriously trying address the issues raised by them. And FDI in both the sectors are a priority for them.
It is reported that the main opposition, BJP, has agreed to reconsider their objection. This is only a matter of time.
The workers in Insurance sector have been continuously opposing FDI and had been successful so far, to a certain extend in containing FDI increase. The Central/State government employees and other workers have been stoutly opposing FDI in Pension. A big Parliament March was organised last year against PFRDA Bill. The PFRDA Ordinance is issued, but it will have to be passed in the Parliament.
There is no other way, but unitedly fight the menace of FDI with support of the people.
