Winter Session of Parliament starts today, hits milestone of 250 session

New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament will start its 250th session that comes 67 years after its first sitting on May 13, 1952. On Monday the government will seek to pass more than 30 bills amid the opposition’s plan to raise various issues such as Jammu and Kashmir, a slowing economy, rising unemployment and farmers’ distress among others. The winter session of Parliament will open with obituary references to two members of the Upper House — former Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Ram Jethmalani — and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj. There will be 20 sittings in this session which will end on December 13.