The 42-day-long Budget Session of Parliament begins from Monday and will have 28 sittings. During this period, Railway Minister Sadanand Gowda and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government's first Railway and General Budgets on July 8 and July 10 respectively.<br /><br />The Economic Survey will be released on July 9. The session will end on August 14.<br /><br />Here are the live updates -<br /><br />The reasons given by the govt for rail fare hike are not acceptable so TMC decided to walk out after taking part in discussion, Derek O'Brien of the TMC says.<br /><br /><br />Congress, BSP, CPI-M stage walkout in Rajya Sabha expressing dissatisfaction with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's reply on price rise.<br /><br /><br />There is sufficient supply of onion and potato, there is no need for panic, assures Finance Minister.<br /><br /><br />Attacking the erstwhile UPA govt, Jaitley says prices of essential commodities rose during the Congress regime, NDA govt is trying to control them.
