New political alignments in Bihar — with Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) walking out of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance and joining the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance — and a leadership change in the Congress will be the new features of the winter session of Parliament that will begin on December 7 and end December 29 with a total of 17 sittings.
With Congress leader Rahul Gandhi having announced already that he will not attend the winter session as he is busy with the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the session is expected to be tranquil.
The winter session is