India Opposition bands together for Parliamentary top post |
Indian National Congress on 8th September decided to contest the election to the post of Deputy Chairman in Rajya Sabha. The party is in talks with allies and like-minded Opposition parties, and there is a likelihood of a DMK MP being fielded as the joint Opposition candidate. The fight will be symbolic since the Opposition side does not have numbers to defeat an NDA candidate, but the Congress leadership felt the election should not go unchallenged. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Congress`s parliamentary leadership which gave final touches to the party`s floor strategy for the monsoon session of Parliament beginning 14th of September. The meeting, chaired by Sonia Gandhi and attended among others by Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has decided to forcefully demand discussions on a number of issues like border standoff with China, handling of Coronavirus outbreak, economic recession, job losses, and fast-growing unemployment. The post of Deputy Chairman had fallen vacant after JD(U) MP Harivansh`s term in the Upper House expired. Harivansh has since been re-elected to Rajya Sabha. Congress sources said if the DMK agrees to field one of its MPs, the candidate is likely to be Tiruchi Siva. The Congress-led opposition has close to 90 MPs in the 245-member House.
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