The joint meeting of both Houses of Parliament is scheduled to start with President Droupadi Murmu’s address at 11am on Tuesday. However, the aggressive opposition is anticipated to raise concerns about topics like the Adani controversy, inflation, and unemployment. After the President’s Address, the economic survey will be presented. Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, will deliver the final complete budget for this term of the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) on Wednesday. This session will have 27 sittings and will be concluded on April 6, 2022, with a month-long recess from February 13 to March 12. Also, eight previous parliament sessions in a row from March 2020 have been cut short due to conflicts and disruptions.

 There were requests for more opportunities to raise issues at an all-party gathering of 37 leaders from 27 opposition parties before the session. There almost everyone agreed that a women’s reservation bill was necessary to reserve one-third of Lok Sabha and state assembly seats for women. Pralhad Joshi, the Union parliamentary affairs sought the opposition’s cooperation in running parliament smoothly and said that the government is always welcoming and is ready to discuss every topic until and unless it is allowed under the rules and has the chair’s permission. Additionally, the Congress floor leaders were not able to attend the meeting because they were in Srinagar for the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the biggest party public outreach in decades. 

In the upcoming fiscal year, India’s economy will continue to grow at the fastest rate among developed nations, with an official growth estimate that is anticipated to range between 9% and 6.8%. Despite slowing from an expected 7% growth in the fiscal year that ends on March 31, growth of 6.8% could still keep India among the world’s fastest-growing economies. It increased by 8.7% the year before, primarily as a result of distortions brought on by the pandemic.

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