{"id":36247,"date":"2026-01-16T00:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36247"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:04:22","slug":"joint-sitting-of-parliament-set-for-jan-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36247","title":{"rendered":"Joint sitting of parliament set for Jan 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The government has decided to convene a joint sitting of Parliament on January 21, with a heavy legislative agenda that includes the passage of 29 bills.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has forwarded a formal summary to the president seeking approval to summon the joint session, which is scheduled to begin at 10:30am.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the joint sitting will take up a total of 29 bills for approval, comprising 18 private members&#8217; bills and 11 government bills. Of these, 24 bills had earlier been returned without presidential assent.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has decided to convene a joint sitting of Parliament on January 21, with a heavy legislative agenda that includes the passage of 29 bills. The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has forwarded a formal summary to the president seeking approval to summon the joint session, which is scheduled to begin at 10:30am. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}