Congress will formulate its strategy for Parliament’s monsoon session, which begins September 14, in a meeting on Tuesday.
The party parliament strategy group meeting will be chaired by Congress Speaker Sonia Gandhi and will be attended by Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, AK Antony, Ahmed Patel, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Gaurav Gogoi, K Suresh, Manickam Tagore, and Ravneet Singh Bittu.
Sonia Gandhi is also the president of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).
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At the meeting, Congress will discuss the issues that will be raised in both Houses during the session, such as the border confrontation with China in Ladakh and the alleged nexus of Facebook with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the management of the Covid government. -19 the pandemic, the economic crisis and the fall of the GDP, the compensation of the GST to the states, the loss of jobs and the agrarian anguish. You will also seek a discussion about the PM CARES Fund.
The party will raise the issue of the sale of 32 public sector companies and the handover of railways and airports to individuals.
A congressional official said the party will speak with other like-minded opposition parties to present a united front in Parliament on all critical issues facing the country. A meeting of the opposition parties is expected to be held later this week.
Opposition leaders are willing to work closely to take on the government in Parliament. This was expressed by the Supreme of the Trinamool Congress and the Prime Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, the Head of Shiv Sena and the Prime Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, and the Leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and the Prime Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, in a recent meeting of top non-NDA ministers with Sonia Gandhi on JEE. / NEET and GST problems.
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At the meeting, Congress will also discuss the report presented by a group, led by former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, on the party’s position on the 11 ordinances the government is likely to bring in the monsoon session.
This will be the first time that some of the 23 signatories to a letter to the party president seeking comprehensive reform of the organization will come face to face with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi after the Congressional Working Committee (CWC) meeting. in August. 24.
Four of the 23 signatories who are members of the CWC – Azad, Sharma, Mukul Wasnik and Jitin Prasada – were criticized by other colleagues at the meeting for writing the letter.
After chairing the meeting, Sonia Gandhi is likely to leave the country for a medical checkup and will not be able to attend the full monsoon session of Parliament.
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