New Delhi: Addressing the Budget Session on Monday morning, President Pranab Mukherjee underscored the government’s responsibility in working for the poor, the marginalized and the vulnerable sections of society.
Mukherjee singled out on inclusive growth, education, legal reforms, interest of farmers, socio-economic growth of rural India and economy as sectors his government has concentrated on in the last nine months in power.
The budget session contains 44 items of financial, legislative and non-legislative business for 2015.
The Parliament Budget Session of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government had been started from today. The Opposition remained unwilling to co-operate with the government, especially on the passage of the ordinances that are priority on the government’s legislative agenda.
At an all-party meeting convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday, the Opposition leaders reiterated that the ordinance route was “unacceptable”. The budgets — general and railways — they stressed, should take precedence over everything else in this session.
NDA government has already launched a charm offensive against the Opposition.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shortly after he shared a stage with NCP leader Sharad Pawar in Baramati, travelled to Uttar Pradesh to attend a pre-wedding ceremony that united the families of RJD leader Lalu Prasad and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh.
The government’s conciliatory approach was also on display earlier in the day when Mr. Naidu drove down to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence to seek the cooperation of the largest Opposition party in carrying out the legislative business. He assured her that the government was “willing to walk the extra mile to accommodate the Opposition.”
Bureau Report
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