As Parliament reopens tomorrow, how Opposition plans to counter an upbeat BJP

Floor leaders of Opposition parties volition conscionable Monday greeting to gully up a strategy for the session.

While Jharkhand saved the blushes for the Congress and its INDIA bloc partners, the temper successful the Congress campy is acold from cheerful. Nevertheless, sources successful the Congress said the Opposition volition question discussions connected the Adani saga and the Manipur unrest, issues it feels are the Government’s Achilles heel.

The Government, connected the different hand, seems determined to propulsion done the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, which is nether the information of a Joint Committee of Parliament. While Jagdambika Pal, president of the associated committee, has said that the panel’s study is ready, its Opposition members are seeking much clip and program to conscionable Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Monday to question hold of the committee’s tenure.

While constituting the committee, Parliament had fixed the sheet clip until the past time of the archetypal week of the wintertime league to taxable its report. The Government has already listed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill for information and transition successful the wintertime league “after the study of the associated committee is presented to the Lok Sabha”.

After a gathering chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and attended by Union Minister and Leader of the House successful Rajya Sabha J P Nadda, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal, the Government broadside said it had appealed to each the parties to guarantee creaseless functioning of Parliament.

On the Opposition’s request for taking up the Adani issue, Rijiju told reporters aft the gathering that the Business Advisory Committees of some the Houses volition determine connected matters to beryllium discussed successful Parliament with consent of the Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairman.

Gaurav Gogoi, Congress Deputy Leader successful Lok Sabha, said the enactment wants discussions connected the Adani contented arsenic good arsenic the taste strife successful Manipur. He said portion the Chief Minister of Jharkhand was arrested, the Government inactive has assurance successful the Chief Minister of Manipur contempt bouts of taste violence.

The Congress besides sought a treatment connected the contented of rising contamination successful northbound India and bid accidents.

On the Adani issue, Pramod Tiwari, Congress Deputy Leader successful Rajya Sabha, said, “It is said that implicit Rs 2,000 crore were allegedly paid by the institution to politicians and bureaucrats to get favourable deals for its star vigor projects… It is simply a sedate contented involving the country’s economical and information interests.” He was referring to the US indictment of Adani, charges which the Adani Group has rejected arsenic baseless.

For the wintertime session, which is scheduled to past until December 20, the Government has listed 16 Bills including the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.

The docket earlier the Houses see presentation, treatment and voting connected the First Batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for the twelvemonth 2024-25; introduction, information and transition of the Punjab Courts (Amendment) Bill to heighten the pecuniary (defined arsenic the monetary worth of a case) appellate jurisdiction of Delhi territory courts from the existing Rs 3 lakh to Rs 20 lakh; Merchant Shipping Bill that seeks to guarantee compliance with India’s work nether maritime treaties to which New Delhi is simply a party; the Coastal Shipping Bill; and the Indian Ports Bill.

As galore arsenic 8 Bills, including the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and the Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) Bill, are pending successful Lok Sabha. According to a Lok Sabha bulletin, 2 Bills are pending with Rajya Sabha. The Rajya Sabha bulletin said an further Bill, The Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, passed by Lok Sabha is pending with the Upper House. There is nary connection connected whether the Government volition bring successful a acceptable of Bills to instrumentality simultaneous elections successful the country.