NEW DELHI: In a first sign of truce, dissidents and congressional loyalists sat down together Tuesday to devise the party’s strategy for the next session of the monsoon parliament.
Self-reformist congressional dissidents Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and surprise guest Manish Tewari participated in the meeting chaired by Acting President Sonia Gandhi. This was the first case after the stormy meeting of the Congressional Working Committee (CWC) in which Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi came face to face with these leaders.
The CWC was held last month in the context of a letter written by 23 leaders for “visible and effective leadership” and elections from the bloc to the CWC level in the party.
Sources say that Rahul Gandhi said that “the government is hiding its failure and deflecting problems as the country faces the Chinese incursion, economic disaster, pandemic and unemployment.”
The party decided to raise all issues related to the economy, the pandemic, unemployment, the Chinese incursion and the suspension of Question Time and will demand a detailed discussion on these issues.
Congress is considering the possibility of challenging the Vice President position in consultation with like-minded parties. Its leaders were of the opinion that a joint opposition candidate should run in the elections scheduled for September 14.
Leaders from both Houses, including AK Antony, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, were present at the meeting.
Rahul Gandhi has been posting videos on the economy and has been critical of the Chinese foray. In his video series, he has alleged that demonetization was an attack on India’s poor, its farmers, workers and small traders and called it an attack on India’s disorganized economy. He also criticized the Modi government over the GST, claiming that it was the second major blow to the disorganized sector of the economy and that its flawed implementation had destroyed the economy.
After India surpassed Brazil in Covid cases, Congress blamed the government. “Narendra Modi’s government has failed in the face of the pandemic. The government has left citizens to their own devices as India becomes the second worst affected nation in terms of number of infections,” the chief spokesman said on Monday. of Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala.
Self-reformist congressional dissidents Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and surprise guest Manish Tewari participated in the meeting chaired by Acting President Sonia Gandhi. This was the first case after the stormy meeting of the Congressional Working Committee (CWC) in which Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi came face to face with these leaders.
The CWC was held last month in the context of a letter written by 23 leaders for “visible and effective leadership” and elections from the bloc to the CWC level in the party.
Sources say that Rahul Gandhi said that “the government is hiding its failure and deflecting problems as the country faces the Chinese incursion, economic disaster, pandemic and unemployment.”
The party decided to raise all issues related to the economy, the pandemic, unemployment, the Chinese incursion and the suspension of Question Time and will demand a detailed discussion on these issues.
Congress is considering the possibility of challenging the Vice President position in consultation with like-minded parties. Its leaders were of the opinion that a joint opposition candidate should run in the elections scheduled for September 14.
Leaders from both Houses, including AK Antony, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, were present at the meeting.
Rahul Gandhi has been posting videos on the economy and has been critical of the Chinese foray. In his video series, he has alleged that demonetization was an attack on India’s poor, its farmers, workers and small traders and called it an attack on India’s disorganized economy. He also criticized the Modi government over the GST, claiming that it was the second major blow to the disorganized sector of the economy and that its flawed implementation had destroyed the economy.
After India surpassed Brazil in Covid cases, Congress blamed the government. “Narendra Modi’s government has failed in the face of the pandemic. The government has left citizens to their own devices as India becomes the second worst affected nation in terms of number of infections,” the chief spokesman said on Monday. of Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala.
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