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The Monsoon Session of Parliament began on Monday. The session will have 19 sittings scheduled in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha till August 12. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Economic Survey in Parliament on Monday.

During the session, the Centre will present six bills, including the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024 which is aimed at facilitating a legal way of replacing the British-era Aircraft Act of 1934 to ensure provisions for ease of doing business in India’s civil aviation sector, The Disaster Management (Amendment) Law Bill and the Boilers Bill, the Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill and the Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill. The Budget of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will also be presented during the session.

Finance Minister Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Union Budget during the Parliament’s Budget session for the seventh consecutive time. However, the budget drew criticism from several leaders of the opposition, who alleged that the budget was “biased” and made to appease the NDA allies, particularly Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.

Following the announcement of the Budget, the I.N.D.I.A Bloc leaders held a meeting at Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence. Shortly after, the opposition alliance announced that it will be staging a protest in the premises of the Parliament on July 24, against the alleged “discriminatory” budget announced by the Finance Minister.

Calling it a “Kursi Bachao Budget,” LoP in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi took a dig at the Centre in a post on X saying, “Kursi Bachao Budget. Appease allies: Hollow promises to them at the cost of other states. Appease Cronies: Benefits to AA with no relief for the common Indian. Copy and Paste: Congress manifesto and previous budgets.”

The grand old party has also alleged that many announcements in the Union Budget were “copy-pasted” from the party’s manifesto for 2024. Taking a swipe at the PM Modi-led government, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said that the he was glad that the Finance Minister read the Congress 2024 manifesto.

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