Kharge convenes meeting of INDIA bloc MPs on Sept 5 ahead of special Parliament session
Congress leader K C Venugopal said party president Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Strategy group on September 5.
Opposition MPs from the INDIA bloc plan to convene on September 5 to deliberate on their collective strategy for the forthcoming special parliamentary session. The session's agenda remains undisclosed.
Sources said MPs of the opposition alliance in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet to chalk out their joint strategy for the session from September 18 to 22. The meeting has been convened by Kharge at his Rajaji Marg residence here, they added.
Congress General Secretary, Organisation, K C Venugopal said party president Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Strategy group on September 5.
"Kharge ji has also called a meeting of MPs of like-minded opposition parties," he told reporters adding that the agenda for the upcoming session would be discussed in the meeting.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi met Kharge at the latter's residence to discuss organisational issues and the current political situation.
The opposition INDIA alliance is working in cohesion with each other and is planning to take on the BJP unitedly on various fronts as well as the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. It functioned in unison during the recent Monsoon session of Parliament too.
(With agency inputs)
