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Parties to meet for Budget session
The Morning Standard
|January 25, 2026
Govt schedules all-party discussion for the upcoming Parliamentary sittings for Tuesday
THE Union Government has convened an all-party meeting on January 27 to deliberate on legislative and other priorities ahead of the Budget Session of Parliament, scheduled to begin on January 28.
In keeping with longstanding parliamentary tradition, President Droupadi Murmu will address a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to mark the commencement of the session.
After a long interval, the Union Budget will be presented on February 1, which falls on a Sunday, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman set to present her ninth consecutive Budget.
Convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, the all-party meeting will be held at 11 am in the main committee room of the Parliament House Annexe on January 27.
This story is from the January 25, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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