Congress panel meets tomorrow to chalk out floor strategy
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 6
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will formulate the party’s Parliament plan on Tuesday at a meeting of the strategy group she has called ahead of the monsoon session starting from September 14.
The meeting, also to be attended by former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, is scheduled in advance of the joint opposition meeting expected to be held later this week.
LAC row, Covid impact on agenda
The monsoon session will start from September 14. The Congress parliamentary strategy group comprises seniors from both Houses
Strategists will discuss the line to be adopted on government ordinances
There will be discussions on LAC row, non-payment of GST compensation, rising Covid-19 burden and continued insistence of govt on conducting exams
The Congress parliamentary strategy group consists of seniors from both Houses. The Rajya Sabha group consists of Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad, deputy leader Anand Sharma, Sonia’s political adviser Ahmed Patel, newly elected RS member and AICC general secretary organisation KC Venugopal and party’s chief whip Jairam Ramesh.
The LS strategy group of the Congress comprises Leader of the House Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi, chief whip K Suresh and whips Manickam Tagore and Ravneet Bittu.
“The Congress strategists will discuss the line to be adopted on government ordinances. Around 11 Bills replacing ordinances are expected to be tabled in the session and the party will formulate its view on each. Besides, there will be discussions on priority issues, including the LAC standoff with China, non-payment of GST compensation to states, the rising Covid-19 burden and a failed lockdown and the continued insistence of the government on conducting competitive and university exams,” said a Congress source.
After the Tuesday meeting of the Congress, leaders of the larger opposition, including the TMC, Left parties, Shiv Sena and the NCP, are expected to meet later this week to articulate a joint floor strategy for the Parliament session. In a recent meeting of non-NDA Chief Ministers called by Sonia, Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee, Jharkhand’s Hemant Soren and Maharashtra’s Uddhav Thackeray had stressed the need to corner the government with unity and purpose.
