NEW DELHI, July 13: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting of top party leaders on July 15 to finalise strategy for the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament, which is expected to be stormy with the opposition raring to raise several issues like EC’s special intensive revision in Bihar and Operation Sindoor.
Sources said the Parliamentary strategy group meeting would be attended by the Leaders of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, besides the deputy leaders in both Houses and the chief whips and whips of the party.
The meeting will be chaired by Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence and will also be attended by some senior leaders who are part of the strategy group.
The Government has announced that the Monsoon session of Parliament will begin on July 21 and continue till August 21, a week longer than planned earlier, signalling a heavy legislative agenda.
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The sources said the Congress is likely to take up the issues of special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar being carried out by the Election Commission (EC) ahead of the Assembly polls.
It has joined several opposition parties in challenging the SIR in the Supreme Court and senior Congress leader and lawyer Abhishek Singhvi is arguing the case.
The Congress wants the SIR to be scrapped, alleging that it is “unconstitutional” and is aimed at disenfranchising around two crore voters in the state.
The Congress is also likely to seek answers from the Government on what it claims were “lapses and losses” during Operation Sindoor and the circumstances that led to the cessation of hostilities following US President Donald Trump’s claims of mediation in the India-Pakistan conflict to avert a nuclear war. (PTI)
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