Rahul Gandhi Calls For Breakfast Meeting With Oppn Leaders To Chalk Out Strategy For Parliament Session

Rahul Gandhi has invited opposition leaders over breakfast ahead of today's Parliament session to discuss strategy over the Pegasus issue.

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New Delhi: While the Monsoon session has failed to function smoothly amid huge protests by the opposition in both the houses demanding a discussion from the Centre over the Pegasus snoopgate row, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has invited leaders of Opposition parties to a breakfast meeting at the Constitution Club in Delhi on Tuesday to chalk out a joint strategy to lead the debate.

Rahul Gandhi's move comes to make the opposition intact and among those invited are DMK, Shiv Sena, NCP, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Aam Admi Party, National Conference, CPI and CPI (Marxist).

The government has, so far, rejected the demand for a discussion on Pegasus and carried out its legislative agenda amid Opposition protests.

“All Opposition Party floor leaders will meet tomorrow morning at the Constitution Club in Delhi,” Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said on Tuesday

While the government has been insisting to hold the discussion on all other issues excepts Pegasus many days have just been washed out without a fruitful debate in the Parliament as the centre and opposition is in a standoff. 

Asserting that “the voice of the Opposition is being suppressed in Parliament”, Rahul Gandhi had earlier accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of tarnishing India's democracy “ by using Pegasus against India, its institutions”.

Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge had sent a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu to register the Opposition’s protest at his decision to not accept any of their notices on snooping and farm laws.

Posting two of his notices, Congress Chief Whip in the Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh tweeted: “Notices for discussion on urgent issues of public importance given on July 23rd in the Rajya Sabha but still not allowed by the Chairman and the government”.

Meanwhile, the Centre has been approaching the opposition requesting for a smooth debate in the Parliament but the opposition has refused to end the impasse