Sonia,Son Rahul To Miss Parliament Session
NEW DELHI : Congress president Sonia Gandhi will not attend the first part of parliament’s monsoon session – starting Monday – as she left the national capital for her annual check-up abroad today.
While Mrs Gandhi will remain out of the country for at least two weeks, her son, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is accompanying her, is expected to return after a few days, when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joins them to assist her.
Mrs Gandhi has held meetings with her parliamentary strategy group and has given clear directives for better coordination in both Houses and to raise key issues that are affecting the nation.
The party is likely to raise issues like economic slowdown and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by the Centre, in parliament. A day before her departure, Mrs Gandhi made key organisational changes in which several “dissent” letter writers, who were seen to have questioned the leadership of the Gandhis last month, lost their posts.
The most notable of the leaders removed from the post of party general secretary is Ghulam Nabi Azad, the de-facto leader of a group of 23 senior party men, who had written to Mrs Gandhi seeking sweeping changes in the party’s organisational structure.
The group had talked about “collective leadership” of the party in the letter, which was seen as an attack on the Gandhis.
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