New Delhi: Facing prospect of a stormy winter session after Bihar poll drubbing, Government will soon meet NDA leaders to work out floor strategy for the month-long affair beginning November 26. However, the meeting which was initially scheduled to be held on Wednesday has now been postponed due to the death of VHP leader Ashok Singhal.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu was to meet the leaders of all NDA allies at his residence to chalk out the Government plans on its legislative business and floor coordination plans amid indications of the Opposition parties closing ranks on various issues.
Mr Naidu will now hold a meeting with NDA leaders later and with all other Opposition parties within a week. Lok Sabha Speaker also holds an all-party meeting a day or two before the Session begins.
The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by home minister Rajnath Singh met here on November 9, a day after BJP’s rout in Bihar polls, and decided to hold the session between November 26 and December 23.
Reaching out to the Opposition to pass key reform Bills, Mr Naidu had last week urged them not to interpret the Bihar polls result as a “mandate to disrupt Parliament”. Upping the ante on the issue of intolerance, JDU general secretary K.C. Tyagi on Tuesday said the PM should signal his intent to act against people spreading the “venom” by removing five Union ministers, who made one or the other “provocative” remarks.
The CCPA also decided to call a special two-day sitting of Parliament on the first two days of the session to commemorate the adoption of Constitution. The Opposition may not be inclined to disrupt Parliament for the first two days keeping in view the sensitivity about Ambedkar.
However, Opposition is likely to raise the issue of intolerance, award wapasi, Dadari lynching, price rise and Centre-State relations in a big way.
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