[New Delhi] Congress Stretches Its Fingers for Parliament’s Winter Session
Congress today discussed its strategy for winter session of Parliament starting tomorrow,
The Congress leaders met ahead of an all-party meeting called by the government and another of opposition.
Sources said during the meeting chaired by the Congress president Smt Sonia Gandhi, top party leaders were of the view that implementation of demonetisation move along with its alleged leakage to BJP should be questioned in both houses of Parliament.
Congress leaders had yesterday alleged that prior information of demonetisation was given by the Prime Minister to his own party leaders and termed it as a “scam”.
Congress is seeking to corner the government on this issue and is trying to bring all opposition parties together.
A meeting of many opposition parties with Congress leaders is slated today.
Congress has given notices for adjournment, short duration discussions and calling attention motion on various issues including demonetisation+surgical strikes + government’s policy towards Pakistan+OROP Etc
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi along with top party leaders AK Antony, Ahmed Patel, Gulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Anand Sharma, Jairam Ramesh and Satyavrat Chaturvedi attended the meeting.