New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today chaired an all-party meeting on the eve of this year’s monsoon session of Parliament, seeking a productive sitting. The Trinamool, however, took a swipe at him saying his regular presence within the House was important.
“Took part within the All-Party meeting before the beginning of Parliament’s Monsoon Session. we glance forward to a productive session where all issues are often debated also as discussed during a constructive manner,” PM Modi tweeted today.
In the meeting, he said it had been everyone’s responsibility to make a conducive environment to boost in an amicable manner issues concerning people. People’s representatives truly know the bottom situation, he said, and such discussions enrich the decision-making process.
Besides Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister and Leader of the House within the Rajya Sabha, Piyush Goyal, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi attended the meeting, aside from the ground leaders of varied parties, PTI reported.
The monsoon session will begin tomorrow and is scheduled to conclude on August 13. On day one, the Prime Minister will introduce the newly-inducted ministers to both the homes , as is that the convention.
Some new members who recently entered Lok Sabha following bye-polls also will take oath tomorrow.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi announced that Modi will address MPs of both the homes on July 20 within the Parliament House Annexe and speak on the pandemic. The opposition parties objected to the present alleging it had been differently of bypassing parliamentary norms.
Derek O’Brien, who represented the Trinamool Congress later tweeted saying, “MPs don’t want fancy PowerPoint presentations on COVID-19 from the PM or this government in some room . Parliament is in session. Come to the ground house of the House.”
“It is very irregular for the govt to try to to this. When the Parliament is in session, any address or presentation the govt wants to form , it’s to be done from inside Parliament,” CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said.
Mr O’Brien claimed all opposition leaders present within the meeting, including Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Samajwadi Party’s Ramgopal Yadav, and BSP’s Satish Misra, refused to be addressed outside Parliament, PTI reported.
Earlier within the day, before the meeting, the Trinamool leader tweeted saying the BJP government must not mock Parliament. Posting a bar chart on the autumn within the number of bills sent to standing committees, he said “legislation is serious business” and it requires scrutiny, not bulldozing
