CCPA recommends Monsoon Session of Parliament from July 19 to August 13

The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) recommended Monsoon Session of the Parliament from July 19 to August 13. The Monsoon session usually starts in the third week of July and concludes ahead of 15 August.

However, there is no clarity as of now whether the existing COVID-19 protocols will continue. So far, 403 members out of the 540 members of the Lok Sabha and 179 members out of 232 in the Rajya Sabha have got both doses of vaccines.

This session will have 20 sittings. Since the pandemic began, all the three sessions of Parliament had to be truncated due to the rising number of COVID-19 positive cases.

This will be the first parliament session after state elections in four states - West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu - and Puducherry.

Demands for Jammu and Kashmir's statehood may be one of the many issues that opposition may raise during the session. "In the monsoon session, parliament should repeal the offending laws and restore the status quo ante in Jammu and Kashmir. That is the only way to draw the starting line for a political resolution of the Kashmir issue," former union minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram had tweeted last week.

The Budget session of the Parliament had concluded two weeks ahead of schedule in March after MPs asked to cut it short.