Parliament’s Budget session — last of the 17th Lok Sabha — to be held from 31 January to 9 February

The new government, which will be sworn in after the Lok Sabha polls expected in April-May, will present the full-fledged budget later.

ByPTI

Published Jan 13, 2024 | 11:32 AMUpdatedJan 13, 2024 | 11:32 AM

The new Parliament building. (Creative Commons)

A brief Budget session of Parliament, the last of the 17th Lok Sabha, will be held between 31 January and 9 February, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi gas said.

He said on X, “Interim Budget Session 2024, last session of Seventeenth Lok Sabha to be held from 31st January to 9th February, with the address of Hon’ble President to the Parliament. On 1st February, Hon’ble FM @nsitharaman ji will present the Interim Union Budget.”

The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha Secretariates issued notifications regarding the commencement of the Budget Session of Parliament on on Friday, 12 January.

The new government, which will be sworn in after the Lok Sabha polls expected in April-May, will present the full-fledged budget later.

Since the term of the 17th Lok Sabha ends on 16 June, it is set to be the last session of Parliament before general elections are announced.

In 2019, the Lok Sabha polls were announced on 10 March and voting was held in seven phases between 11 April and 19 May.

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