Seven Opposition parties on Tuesday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to direct the central government to discuss in Parliament the matters ...
Seven Opposition parties on Tuesday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to direct the central government to discuss in Parliament the matters of the agriculture laws and alleged surveillance using the Pegasus spyware, ANI reported.
The parties sought an appointment with Kovind to speak to him on the two contentious topics and asked him intervene in order to “uphold the dignity of the Constitution of India and parliamentary rules and procedures”.
The Akali Dal, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the National Conference, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India and the Rashtriya Lok Dal jointly wrote a letter to Kovind.
The letter was sent amid an impasse in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. On Tuesday evening, the Houses were adjourned till 11 am on Wednesday after the Opposition parties raised slogans demanding a discussion into allegations that the Pegasus spyware was used to spy on politicians, journalists and activists in India.
The government said it was ready to discuss anything except the Pegasus spyware allegations, while the Opposition insisted upon taking up the matter first, NDTV reported.
The deadlock may well continue on Wednesday as the Opposition parties have decided to move an adjournment motion on the alleged surveillance, Congress MP K Suresh told ANI. Opposition leaders of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok...
