Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 22:26 IST
Gandhi will meet face-to-face with some of the 23 “letter writers” who had demanded an overhaul of the party in a written appeal in August. Congress president Sonia Gandhi. | File photo | Photo Credit: IANS
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Among those who wrote the letter are Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and deputy leader of the party in the Upper House, Anand Sharma
This is the first time Gandhi will be meeting the Congress leaders in person, months after the Covid-19 outbreak forced everyone to work virtually
New Delhi: Nearly four months after several top leaders of the Congress wrote an open letter seeking organisational overhaul in the party leadership, president Sonia Gandhi is set to meet the ‘rebels’ this weekend on the sidelines of the party’s other commitments.
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CITING a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Union government has decided not to hold the Winter Session of Parliament. A session, even a curtailed one, would have provided the lawmakers a much-needed platform to discuss pressing issues: the contentious farm laws and the prolonged agitation by the farmers who are demanding their repeal; the seven-month-old border standoff with China that is nowhere near resolution; and the action plan for the rollout of the Covid vaccine. The argument for doing away with the session does not hold water as the daily coronavirus caseload of the country in general and Delhi in particular has come down significantly. It’s not that the government has no experience of conducting parliamentary proceedings during a raging pandemic. The Monsoon Session was held in September, a devastating month which alone witnessed over 26 lakh infections nationwide, accounting for one-fourth of the total cases so far, and more
No Parliament Winter Session due to COVID-19
Published : Dec 16, 2020, 4:25 am IST
Updated : Dec 16, 2020, 4:25 am IST
The government will convene the Budget Session in January 2021, parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi said
The Winter Session of Parliament that usually begins in the last week of November won’t take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (PTI)
New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament that usually begins in the last week of November won’t take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the government will convene the Budget Session in January 2021, parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi said in a letter to Congress’ Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
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