New Delhi: Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Congress is gearing up to oppose four out of 11 ordinances, including the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, Taxation and other laws.
Congress has also decided to write a letter to the Speakers of both the houses raising the issue of scrapping the Question Hour in upcoming session.
The decision was taken during the first meeting of Congress Coordination committee, held on Thursday, before the commencement of Monsoon Session. The meeting was attended by 10 MPs, 5 from each of the houses and was chaired by Congress' Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad.
"Due to some technical issues, our leader in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Choudhary wasn't able to take part in the meeting," said a Congress functionary who was also present in the meeting. Others, who attended the meeting were Jairam Ramesh, Manickam Tagore, Ahmed Patel, Gaurav Gogoi, Anand Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ravneet Bittu, Koddikunil Suresh and KC Venugopal.
"We have already identified 15 issues which we are going to raise in the upcoming Parliament session, including COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, unemployment rate, India-China border tensions, migrant workers' problems, price rise, privatization of Public Sector Undertakings, Facebook row and many others," a Congress member told ETV Bharat.
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