New Delhi: UPA chairperson and Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday held a joint strategy meeting with the Opposition parties for the Parliament session.
The meeting, held in her Parliament House office in the afternoon that was also attended by Congress President Rahul Gandhi along with Adhir Ranjan Choudhary and K Suresh, also decided to oppose “one nation, one election” idea for which Prime Minister Modi has convened a meeting here Wednesday afternoon.
It identified the issues on which all parties will jointly corner the government during the session lasting over a month. Those who attended the meeting included TR Baalu and Kanimozhi of DMK, Supriya Sule of NCP, Farooq Abdullah of National Conference,
Thirumaavalan Thol (VCK), NK Premachandran (RSP), PK Kunhalikutty (IUML), Thomas Chazhikadan (KC-M) and D Raja (CPI). A Congress spokesman said leaders of some like-minded parties also attended the meeting.
He said earlier in the morning Sonia held a meeting with the Congress leaders, including Rahul and former prime minister Manmohan Singh, at her residence to discuss the party’s strategy for the session. The meeting urged Sonia to take leadership in keeping the opposition parties united.
It was in this meeting that a decision was taken to make West Bengal’s 5-term MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary as leader of the Congress group in the Lok Sabha.
