Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the party will raise the issue of a special relief package for the disaster-hit Himachal Pradesh, during this special session in Parliament, an official statement said on Wednesday.
The Central government has listed a special discussion on Parliament’s 75-year journey, starting from the Samvidhan Sabha that first met on December 9, 1946, on the first day of the upcoming Special Session of Parliament, beginning on September 18.
Responding to the all-party meeting, convened by the Centre ahead of the Special Session of Parliament, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), D Raja on Wednesday said that it is a "routine meeting".
The special session of Parliament will start in the old building on September 18 and will be later moved to the new building on September 19 on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.
The former president of the now-disbanded Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and BJP leader, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, on Thursday came down heavily on DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his rant against Sanatan Dharma, saying leaders like him were "ignorant fools".
Amid the controversy around the phrase "President of Bharat" in a formal invite from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to foreign delegates for a G20 dinner, leading to speculations of a proposed name change of the country in the upcoming Special Session of Parliament, the BJP's Andhra Pradesh Bharatiy
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said that the Opposition will attend the Special Session of Parliament as boycotting it would lead to BJP's one-sided victory.
Talking to ANI, the RJD leader said that nobody except Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah knows the agenda of the session starting from September 18 and said that 'this is he new transperancy'.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday attacked Congress leader Sonia Gandhi over a letter she wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, demanding a discussion and debate on several issues in the upcoming Special Session of Parliament from September 18 to 22.