Parliamentary proceedings | Budget session of Parliament extended by a day, white paper on economy likely to be tabled

The session, which began on January 31, was otherwise slated to end on February 9. File. | Photo Credit: PTI

The Budget session will be extended by a day and will sit on Saturday, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla informed the House on Wednesday. 

Mr. Birla said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi informed him of one day of extra sitting because of urgent government business.

Though he did not specify the urgent business, the Narendra Modi government is all set to table the white paper on economy that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced on February 1 while presenting the interim Budget.

Ms. Sitharaman had said the white paper would bring out the state of the economy before and after 2014. 

Responding to the announcement, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had asserted that the Congress was not afraid of the white paper, and would respond to the document as and when it is tabled in Parliament.