What is the agenda for special Parliament session, INDIA parties ask govt.
The Hindu
Opposition parties demand Modi government spell out agenda for special session of Parliament; Congress decides Sonia Gandhi will write to PM on issues to be raised; 24 parties of INDIA bloc to take part; issues of price rise, unemployment, Chinese transgressions, Sanatana Dharma, floods in Himachal and Northeast to be discussed.
Opposition parties belonging to the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on September 5 demanded that the Modi government spell out the agenda for the special session of Parliament even as the Congress decided that parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issues that the principal Opposition party wants to raise during the session.
The Parliamentary Strategy Group of the Congress, which met at Ms. Gandhi’s 10 Janpath residence, decided that she will ask the government to have a debate on the continuing violence in Manipur, price rise, unemployment, Chinese transgressions among others, during the five-day special session of Parliament that begins on September 18.
Ms. Gandhi’s letter will be on behalf of the 24 Opposition parties that are part of the INDIA bloc, which will take part in the special session.
The Congress meeting was followed by a meeting of the floor leaders of the INDIA parties at the official residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, to formulate a common strategy for the session.
“Modi Govt is convening a special session of Parliament for the first time without spelling out the agenda. No one from any Opposition party has been consulted or informed. This is not the way to run a democracy,” Mr. Kharge posted on social media platform X, soon after the meeting of floor leaders of INDIA bloc got over.
“Everyday, Modi Govt plants a story in the media of a prospective ‘agenda’, thereby creating a smokescreen of diversion from real issues burdening the people...,” he added.
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