New Delhi, Dec 6: Floor leaders of 17 parties of the INDIA opposition bloc on Wednesday met at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and discussed steps to improve coordination in Parliament to take on the BJP.
It was decided at the meeting that the senior leadership would meet soon and the date will be announced in a day or two. Kharge said in a post on X that a parliamentary strategy meeting of like-minded parties of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha floor leaders was held at 10, Rajaji Marg.
“We will take up issues of the people in the Parliament in the remaining part of this session to make the government accountable. “A date for meeting of INDIA parties will soon be fixed, in consultation with the leaders of all parties. Judega Bharat, Jeetega INDIA,” he said on X.
The Congress president had invited the leaders over dinner and another meeting would be held in the third week of December that will be attended by top leaders including some chief ministers from the opposition parties.
Congress leader and whip in Rajya Sabha Naseer Hussain said it was a meeting of floor leaders of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha belonging to INDIA bloc constituents.
The meeting is held every day in the morning but could not take place today, so this meeting was planned at Kharge’s residence in the evening.
“The meeting was presided over by LoP Kharge and Rahul Gandhi. A number of issues of Parliament and upcoming bills were discussed. There was also a discussion about the government’s attitude.
“It was also decided that a meeting of INDIA party leaders will take place soon and we will announce the date in a day or two,” Hussain told reporters after the meeting.
Asked about the absence of TMC and Shiv Sena, Hussain said they had already informed that they would not be able to attend. “It happens daily that some parties are not able to participate due to some compulsion,” he said.
Among Congress leaders present at Kharge’s residence were its leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari, besides general secretaries K C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh. (PTI)
