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Winter Session from Dec 1; truncated one, says Oppn

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November 10, 2025

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said the winter session of Parliament would be held from December 1 to 19. During the session, the two Houses would potentially have 15 sittings. In recent years, the shortest winter session was in 2013, which had only 10 sittings, and the one in 2022, which had 13.

- ARCHIS MOHAN

In 2025, if Parliament sits for all 15 sittings planned during the session, it would have sat for 62 days, or 21 days on average for each of the three sessions in the year. In 2024, during the course of the current Lok Sabha (LS), Parliament had 42 sittings (2

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