Cabinet Committee to take decision on Winter session schedule: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Amid suggestions that the winter session of Parliament will be a truncated affair, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs will take a call on the issue.

He also reminded National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah that Parliament had passed a resolution that entire Kashmir, including PoK, is part of India and the decision is applicable on members of Parliament.

Abdullah is a Lok Sabha member.

At the briefing on the decisions taken by Union Cabinet today, Prasad was asked whether the winter session will become a 'casualty' of the busy schedule of the prime minster and other ministers who are holding door-to-door campaign ahead of the Gujarat polls.

He said the decision on the schedule of the session will be taken by the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.

"(Parliamentary Affairs Minister) Ananth Kumar is in touch with them (members of the CCPA)... what is the problem if ministers are getting in touch with the people. Ministers of the Narendra Modi government are not elitist who only tweet," he said.

Asked about the efforts being made by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to resolve the Ayodhya dispute, he said the subject matter of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar should be be referred to Ravi Shankar, the law minister.

The law minister preferred to remain silent on the issue of a petition in the Supreme Court regarding judges bribery.