The Monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to begin on July 20 and continue until August 17. In total, there are 17 sittings in this session of the parliament. At present, 37 bills are pending in Parliament, of which eight are listed for consideration and passing in the session and 21 for introduction, consideration and passing.
The upcoming parliament session will take place three days after the Opposition meeting in Bengaluru and the ruling National Democratic Alliance NDA event at the Ashoka Hotel in Delhi. The two meetings were intended to chalk out strategies and figuring out rallying schedules for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Here are some points to know before the upcoming parliament session of 2023:
The central government has held an all-party meeting to discuss issues related to the monsoon session.
The Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has also had separate meetings with his Cabinet colleagues, including Prahlad Joshi and Piyush Goyal.
The government is expected to submit a bill on Uniform Civil Code UCC in the upcoming session.
This bill may be sent to parliamentary standing committee, which will hear views of stakeholders on the UCC.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will also be tabled in the Parliament.
The report notes that all online and offline data in India will fall under the legal domain. The bill states that personal data can only be processed following an individual's consent.
If passed in the Parliament session, the bill will give individuals the right to seek detailed information about their data collection, storage and processing.
In May this year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the centre is planning to table a new bill on the nation's census in the monsoon session.
The new census will be helpful in creating a basic plan for development and providing basic amenities to the underprivileged and exploited, Shah said.
The Union Home Minister said that the bill had a provision which would help a voter get a voter ID card as soon as they turn 18 years of age.
The Congress will demand a discussion on the Manipur issue, sexual harassment allegations against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, demand for a joint parliamentary committee JPC probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue, the alleged misuse of agencies and the implementation of GST under the purview of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA12. Congress Jairam Ramesh said the grand old party would also raise the issue of railway safety in view of the tragic Balasore triple train accident. Ramesh also claimed that basic issue of railway safety had been sidelined in the pursuit of new Vande Bharat trains.