Congress not to skip winter session of parliament, says key issues are China border, judiciary vs centre, inflation: Sources

New Delhi:

For the Winter Session of Parliament that begins on Wednesday, the Congress has determined to maintain deal with price-rise and joblessness, the China border dispute, and the current confrontation of the Centre with the Supreme Courtroom over the collegium system of judges’ appointment. 

The session which begins a day earlier than essential ballot ends in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat — and can final till December 29 — might not see a lot attendance by Rahul Gandhi and another leaders who’re with him on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, at present shifting from central to northern India.

However the listing of points is prepared, sources advised NDTV as we speak, after a gathering of the social gathering’s Technique Group led by Sonia Gandhi and attended by social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge.

It contains demanding a authorized assure for Minimal Assist Worth (MSP) for farm produce. This furthers a chief demand of the 2020-21 farmers’ protest that had compelled Narendra Modi’s authorities to reverse three legal guidelines on corporatisation of farming.

The Congress can be finalising a nuanced stance on tips on how to strategy the ten per cent quota for Economically Weaker Sections, which was lately upheld by Supreme Courtroom, sources additional stated. Although the Congress has to date been fantastic with how it’s, the eligibility norms have grow to be a matter of debate amongst many circles — notably the exclusion of communities which can be eligible for different quotas on caste or tribal foundation.

Within the instant, the social gathering will query the federal government over the current cyber-terror assault on the nation’s premier medical establishment, the AIIMS in Delhi, sources stated. 

“We won’t stall the Home except it turns into mandatory,” a supply stated, when requested about walkouts or disruptions being a part of its technique.

The session will likely be held within the present Parliament constructing, and never within the new one which was anticipated to be prepared by now. The session additionally needed to be delayed by a month because of the Gujarat ballot schedule.

For the Congress, there stays yet another query: Who will likely be its Chief of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha as Mallikarjun Kharge, now the social gathering’s nationwide president, had resigned as per the social gathering’s one-person-one-post norm.

He might even be exempted from that norm and stay the chief, at the very least for this session, sources have advised NDTV. P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are options on the desk.

The federal government plans to introduce 16 new Payments throughout the session, together with one which seeks to reform the electoral course of in cooperative societies.