Congress is likely to raise issues such as the economic slowdown in parliament (Archive)
New Delhi:
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will not attend the first part of the monsoon session of parliament, starting Monday, as she left the national capital today for her annual check-up abroad. While Ms Gandhi will be out of the country for at least two weeks, her son, Congressman Rahul Gandhi, who is accompanying her, is expected to return after a few days, when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joins them to help her.
Ms Gandhi has held meetings with her parliamentary strategy group and has given clear guidelines for better coordination in both Houses and to raise key issues that are affecting the nation.
The party is likely to raise issues such as the economic slowdown and the Center’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in parliament.
President of Congress, Smt. Sonia Gandhi travels onward today for a routine follow-up and medical check-up, which was postponed due to the pandemic.
She is accompanied by Sh. Rahul Gandhi.
We take this opportunity to thank everyone for their concern and good wishes.
– Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) September 12, 2020
One day before her departure, Ms Gandhi made key organizational changes in which several “dissident” letter writers, who were considered to have questioned the Gandhi leadership last month, lost their posts.
The most notable of the leaders ousted from the position of general secretary of the party is Ghulam Nabi Azad, the de facto leader of a group of 23 high-ranking party men, who had written to Ms Gandhi seeking radical changes in the organizational structure. of the party.
The group had spoken about the “collective leadership” of the party in the letter, which was seen as an attack on the Gandhis.
Motilal Vora, Ambika Soni and Mallikarjun Kharge were also removed as general secretaries of the All India Congressional Committee (AICC) in Friday’s deck by Ms Gandhi.
P Chidambaram, Tariq Anwar, Randeep Surjewala and Jitendra Singh have been appointed regular members of the reconstituted Congressional Working Committee. Randeep Singh Surjewala, a loyalist to Rahul Gandhi, has been appointed general secretary in charge of Karnataka.
Parliament meets again on September 14 amid a rapid rise in coronavirus cases across the country. Various safety measures will be put in place, including the mandatory face mask and social distancing, the sources said. The chambers and galleries of both Houses will be used for the session of deputies Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Sources have said that each house will be limited to four hours of operation per day; the Lok Sabha will meet first, followed by the Rajya Sabha.
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