The budget session begins on January 31, the day after the budget is presented

New Delhi

This year's budget session is starting from January 31 in the bloody eye of the third wave of Covid 19 across the country. The President Ramnath Kovind will address the joint session on the first day in accordance with the custom. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget in Parliament the next day. The session will be closed for more than a month from February 11. The second phase will run from March 14 to April 6.

Assembly elections are being held in five states of the country, including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, from February 10 to March 8. The result is March 10. The first round of elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held before the end of the first phase of the budget session. The second round of the country's most populous state and the Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa elections on February 14. As a result, political experts are expressing doubts about the turnout in the last few days of the first session of the budget session. However, the election phase will end before the start of the second phase.

Although the notification regarding the session has not been released yet, according to the source, the above schedule has been proposed on the recommendation of the Parliamentary Affairs Committee. Corona's hand is already in Parliament. More than 400 workers have been affected recently. In this situation, it is heard that two rooms can be run in two halves to follow the distance rule.

Special correspondent