Lok Sabha speaker assembles all-party meeting on December 11

New Delhi, Dec 5 Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has called an all-party meeting on December 11, the first day of the Parliament's winter session, to build a consensus for a smooth functioning of the Lower House.

The winter session from December 11 to January 8 will be the last full-fledged session before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls . The including of votes for election in five states, on December 11, will concur with the start of the session.

Another all-party meeting has been called by the Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu and the legislature on December 10 for accomplishing an agreement for a smooth direct of the procedures in the Upper House.

The three meetings are gone for building a consensus on the issues which are likely going to be taken after amid the session to ensure smooth conduct of proceedings in both the houses of the legislature.

The results of the Assembly elections in five states, in which the ruling BJP and the Congress have high stakes, will undoubtedly cast a shadow on the parliamentary proceedings.

The results of the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram Assembly polls will be announced on December 11.

The government will push for the section of the moment "triple talaq" bill pending in the Rajya Sabha in the upcoming session. It had before declared a statute to make the act of moment triple talaq a reformatory offence.

For the Opposition, it will be the keep going opportunity to go up against the legislature in the House and they are probably going to raise a few issues, for example, the Rafale bargain, trouble in homestead segment, and working of the CBI.