Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday requested Rajya Sabha Opposition Leader Mallikarjun Kharge to coordinate with different opposition events to determine frequent points to be raised in Parliament and formulate a joint technique to tackle the NDA authorities in each Houses. Parliament’s Monsoon session begins Monday.
Gandhi Wednesday chaired a gathering of the Congress’s parliamentary technique group which recognized six points to be raised in Parliament – the federal government’s alleged mismanagement of the second wave and its vaccination technique, the persevering with farmers’ agitation, border tensions with China, value rise, joblessness and the state of the economic system, and the recent revelations within the Rafale fighter jet deal.
Sources mentioned Kharge will now discuss to leaders of different opposition events to determine frequent points to make sure that the opposition events stay on the identical web page in each Houses on the subject of attacking the federal government. Sources mentioned Gandhi informed the get together’s ground leaders that they need to guarantee that there’s coordination among the many get together’s MPs and between each Houses of Parliament.
In the current previous, the Congress’s Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha wings have pulled in numerous instructions on a couple of event.
Sources mentioned the get together may additionally elevate points just like the “misuse of the sedition law”, “stifling of dissent” and the Supreme Court’s observations on using UAPA. Sources mentioned the get together would demand discussions on most of those points however will prioritise points relying on the temper of the opposite opposition events.
The assembly chaired by Gandhi was attended by Kharge, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, chief of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and Congress deputy chief in Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma, in addition to senior leaders A Okay Antony, Manish Tewari, Jairam Ramesh and Okay C Venugopal, and Congress chief whip in Lok Sabha Kodikunnil Suresh and whip Manickam Tagore.
Some of the get together’s MPs have already moved statutory resolutions elevating objections to sure payments together with some which can exchange ordinances. The get together will elevate objections to the Essential Defence Service Bill which can exchange an ordinance that bans strikes in defence manufacturing items, which has already raised the hackles of the Left commerce unions. The Congress additionally has reservations over a few of the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill.