"You Can't Wake A Man...": Shashi Tharoor Backs Trinamool On House Panels

The Trinamool has written to the Lok Sabha Speaker at least three times seeking permission to hold virtual meets of the various House panels.

The Trinamool Congress's demand to hold virtual meetings of the various parliamentary committees, the deadly second Covid wave notwithstanding, was today strongly echoed by senior Congress leaders. Narendra & Amit.(Yes that's the form of address. Guess why!)Since July last year, Trinamool hv written 3 letters to the powers-that-be to allow #Parliament Committee meetings to be held VIRTUALLY.Not allowing virtual meetings means Oppn can't hold GOI accountable #COVID19 There is an old saying, you can't wake a man who is pretending to sleep! https://t.co/CTKCUvmsEP The Trinamool has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at least three times in nearly a year seeking permission for the many such panels to meet so as to ensure a modicum of accountability to Parliament amid these stressed times. Its latest letter on the matter, dated May 7, was written to both Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Mr Birla. "India has reported more than 3 lakh new COVID-19 cases per day for the past two weeks. In light of the prevailing circumstances, I urge your good offices to reconsider our request for conducting virtual meetings of parliamentary committees including departmentally related standing committees, consultative committees and select committees," Mr O'Brien wrote in it.