Top leadership of the Opposition Congress party met in New Delhi on Thursday the 16th of July to playout an aggressive floor strategy during the Monsoon Session of Parliament which is scheduled to begin from Monday next week 20th of July.
The meeting held at Sonia Gandhi’s residence at 10 Janpath, it was decided that Congress president Mallikarjun in a letter to PM Modi will demand convening an all party meeting to discuss threadbare government’s “revised proposals” on the Constitution 131st Amendment Bill 2026.
The bill seeks to amend the constitution reserving 33 per cent seats for women in the legislature and also the delimitation in the Lok Sabha constituencies.
The meeting was attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge who is also the Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Rajya Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, the LOP in Lok Sabha, Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh, senior leaders P. Chidambaram, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Gaurav Gogoi and Kumari Selja, among others.
It may be recalled that Modi government had suffered a political setback in Parliament in April earlier this year when during the Special Parliament Session, the Constitution Amendment Bill on women reservation and delimitation fell short required 2/3rd majority mark.
The Opposition votes were 298 votes against the Bill while Modi government could muster only 230 in its favour.
Congress sources are saying that Treasury Benches might bring the controversial bills back on the agenda during the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Among other issues that opposition is most likely to raise aggressively in both the Houses are over alleged paper leak scandals, Ayodhya Ram Mandir offering theft issue, rising inflation and macroeconomic challenges and regional governance issues.
