Budget Session  

The Parliament’s budget session commenced on Wednesday. Prior to this, President Droupadi Murmu addressed both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

The government will introduce the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development Bill, 2021 in the current Budget session
 

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said the Rajya Sabha held 5,472 sittings and passed 3,857 Bills till the Budget Session this year, even as it asserted its independence on some occasions.

Seven members of the Congress have been suspended by the remainder of the Budget Session owing to their misdemeanour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 30th January said the Government is open for discussion on all issues in the forthcoming Budget Session of Parliament. He was addressing the all-party meeting on the eve of the Budget session which is beginning on the 31st of January 2020.

The Andhra Pradesh government would introduce two Budgets where the general Budget would be held by the state finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy and agriculture Budget by East Godavari president K Kannababu

Last month, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that President Trump had invited Prime Minister Khan in June but he could not undertake the visit because of the budget session.
 

Kanakadurga and Bindu who entered the Sabarimala shrine on January 2, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday about their resolve to enter the temple again on February 12. The Maharashtra forest department has closed the case against the shooter Asghar Ali Khan in the tigress Avni shooting case. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

BJP continues to question the legitimacy of the Kumaraswamy-led Karnataka government as the coalition seems to be.

The chief whip of the Karnataka coalition government, Ganesh Hukkeri, in a letter had asked all party legislators to be present for the Assembly session which commenced on February 6.