BJP Issues Whip To All Members Of Lok Sabha To Present During Special Session
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lead Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued a line whip to all members of Parliament from the party in Lok Sabha to be present in the house from 18th to 22nd September. News agency ANI quoted sources and said the line whip has been issued to “discuss very important legislative business and support the government”s stand”.
It is rumoured that the NDA government will bring in contentious issues like ‘One Nation, One Election’ and India’s name change to Bharat in the upcoming special session of the Parliament which is scheduled to begin from September 18.
A line whip in the Indian Parliament is a directive issued by a political party to its members of Parliament (MPs) on how to vote on a particular issue. It is a way for parties to ensure that their MPs vote in line with the party”s position.
After the government announced the special session, Congress had demanded the central government to spell out the agenda of the session, which is being held from September 18 to 22, accusing it of being keeping the country in the dark.
“The parliament belonged to the country and the country was being kept in dark by the government”, observed Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh and the Deputy Leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi after an AICC meeting in Delhi.
Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi had also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding the central government and pointed out that, the Special Session has been convened without consulting any other political parties. “None of us [parties other than those in the NDA alliance] have any idea of its agenda”, she said.
As the letter to PM Modi states, Congress also wants certain issues like the economic situation of the country, unemployment, price hike, Himachal floods, Adani row and Manipur violence, among others, to be discussed in the special session.
Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi hit back at Mrs Gandhi as a response to her letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that it is “yet another desperate attempt” of Sonia Gandhi and Congress party to create an issue out of nothing.
