New Delhi: Leaders from at least 16 opposition parties led by Congress on Tuesday demanded a special session of Parliament on Operation Sindoor and wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as INDIA bloc parties held a meeting on the issue in the national capital on Tuesday.
Leaders from several parties, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, IUML, Kerala Congress, MDMK, CPI, CPIML, CPI-M, VCK, JMM, NC, RSP and Shiv Sena (UBT) were part of the meeting.
INDIA bloc MPs have signed a letter addressed to the prime minister raising the demand for a special session of Parliament, opposition leaders said at a joint press conference here after rhe meeting.
The meeting was attended by Congress’ Jairam Ramesh and Deependra Hooda, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien, Samajwadi Party’s Ramgopal Yadav, RJD’s Manoj Jha, and Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut at the Constitution Club.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), however, distancednitself from the party and will write a letter to the Prime Minister on Wednesday. Nationalist Congress Party (SP), however, is not among the parties demanding a special session.
Several Opposition parties have been demanding a special session of Parliament since the Pahalgam terror attack. The demand was also raised in an all-party meeting held to inform the lawmakers about Operation Sindoor. The Sharad Pawar led faction of the Nationalist Congress Party, however, also skipped the meeting here.
Several Opposition parties have been demanding a special session of Parliament since the Pahalgam terror attack. The demand was also raised in an all-party meeting held to inform the lawmakers about Operation Sindoor.
Congress sources claimed that it was Rahul Gqndhi, who wanted this letter in a coordinated way. The source said that first it was only Congress MPs but the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha wanted it to be INDIA bloc. The source claimed that Rahul Gandhi reached out to Akhilesh Yadav, Abhishek Banerjee, TR Balu and Aditya Thackeray personally.
“KC Venugopal and Gaurav Gogoi followed it up, with other parties K Suresh, Manickam Tagore and Mohammad Javed reached out,” the source said.
Speaking to the media, O’Brien said, “Sixteen parties have written a letter to PM Modi demanding, seeking, asking for a special session of Parliament.”
Explaining why he opposotion parties chose to write a letter, he said, “The government is responsible to Parliament and Parliament is responsible to the people of the county.”
He said that several opposotion parties signed the letter letter included Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Abhishek Banerjee, TR Balu, Arvind Sawant, Abhay Kumar Sinha, Miya Altaf Ahmed, Mr Basheer of IUML and others.
Others among the signatories were Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Mahua Majhi and many other MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will also sign it. Meanwhile, Hooda said that 16 political parties have demanded for special session of Parliament over Operation Sindoor.
He said that the Congress had supported the armed forces of the country, soon after Pahalgam terror attack.
“Once ceasefire was announced by US, we demanded for special session. We want to thank the armed forces, and want the government to answer all points on Operation Sindoor and US announcing ceasefire and what steps we have taken to isolate Pakistan and how much success we are getting in country’s interest, ” the Congress leader said. He further said that we (opposition) demanded for the same reason.
Hooda said, “Several delegations are keeping their views in front of other countries, so we want the government to share the same with the Parliament. Rahul Gandhi and other MPs of different parties have demanded for the same.” Ramgopal Yadav said that “we want Parliament to be informed about the Operation Sindoor, as we are informing other countries”.
“None of the countries have come in supoort of India, we have failed on diplomatic front. We thank the armed forces. But we failed on diplomatic front despite PM Modi went to several countries and even his friend US President Trump has claimed credit for ceasefire,” Yadav said.
He said that it seems that we are being forced. “It is necessary to convene special session of Parliament,” the Samajwadi Party leader said.
Several other leaders also echoed the same sentiments.
In a question about AAP skipping the meeting, O’Brien said, “We are hopeful that they will directly write to PM Modi.”
On why the NCP (SP) skipped the meeting, Sanjay Raut said, “Sharad Pawar is also with us. Supriya Sule is on foreign visit with the delegation and Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra. When I will goto Mumbai I will speak to Pawar saab.”
Several opposition parties have been demanding the government to intervene the special session of Parliament over Pahalgam terror attack and India’s reply in the form of Operario Sindoor.