Sonia to write to Modi on Parl session agenda

Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to spell out the government’s agenda in the upcoming special session of Parliament, and informing him about the Opposition’s demand to discuss a raft of issues, leaders aware of the matter said after a meeting of the INDIA group on Tuesday evening.

- Saubhadra Chatterji

Gandhi's letter will be written in the next few days, people aware of the matter said. Congress leaders said that all 24 INDIA constituents with a presence in Parliament have endorsed the plan for Gandhi to write to Modi.

This came after the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) decided in two meetings one of the 28-member group and another of the Congress -that it wants to discuss fres gations against the Adani Group, price rise, unemployment, the Manipur situation and Centrestate relations in the five-day session beginning September 18, said the leaders cited above.

At the floor leaders meeting held at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence on Tuesday, the leaders also discussed some attempts by ministers and government officials to use Bharat instead of India-a controversy broke out earlier in the day over a G20 dinner invitation that described Droupadi Murmu as President of Bharat, instead of President of India and the women reservation bill.