Union Budget 2026 to be presented on February 1, says Lok Sabha Speaker

The Union Budget will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 which is a SundayAnswering queries during a press conference today on Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said that the union budget will be presented at 11 am on February 1 in the HouseThe budget session of Parliament will commence on January 28 with address by President Droupadi Murmu to the joint sitting of the two HousesThe 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth being hosted by Parliament of India will be the largest CSPOC in terms of participationOm Birla said that the conference will be held from January 14 to 16 will discuss shared parliamentary values democratic governance and institutional cooperationPrime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the conference on January 15 in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan Parliament House ComplexSpeaker Om Birla is the Chairperson of this ConferenceThe Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Commonwealth being hosted by India will have the largest participation Birla saidIn a post on X later he said the conference will be attended by 61 Speakers and Presiding Officers from Commonwealth countries and semiautonomous parliaments including the Presidents of the IPU and the CPAIn this regard it will be the largest CSPOC conference in the history of the forum he saidHe said that the objective of CSPOC is to uphold and strengthen impartiality in the parliaments of Commonwealth nations and to empower parliamentary democracy and institutions India has earlier successfully hosted this conference in 1971 1986 and 2010This conference will undoubtedly showcase Indias technological progress and its commitment to global parliamentary cooperation on the world stage he saidHe said that work related to the conference has been done online and paper has not been usedHe said an app has been developed to enable all aspects of conference coordination facilitation and information dissemination A webbased event management system has been developedAnswering queries he said there will be no participation from Pakistan and Bangladesh does not have a Speaker at present with general elections scheduled to take place next monthThe Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Commonwealth CSPOC was created in 1969 as an initiative of then Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada Lucien LamoureuxSince its inception Canada has provided CSPOC with a secretariat to support its activitiesCSPOC brings together Speakers and Presiding Officers of 53 national parliaments of sovereign states of the CommonwealthCSPOC is an independent group with no formal affiliation with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association CPA the Commonwealth Secretariat or the Commonwealth Heads of Government CHOGM However its membership is the same as that of CPAThe conference aims to maintain foster and encourage impartiality and fairness on the part of Speakers and Presiding Officers of ParliamentsIt also seeks to promote knowledge and understanding of parliamentary democracy in its various forms and develop parliamentary institutionsCSPOC operates on a twoyear cycle holding a conference of the full membership every two years usually early in January and a meeting of the Standing Committee at the same time the intervening yearThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever