With the Monsoon Session of the Parliament starting from tomorrow, the Centre has accepted the Opposition’s demand to hold a debate on Operation Sindoor, sources told The Indian Express Sunday.
The sources, however, added that the government is yet to take a call regarding a debate on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
The Monsoon session, starting on July 21, will conclude on August 21.
On Saturday, the Opposition INDIA bloc held a virtual meeting of 24 of its constituents, reaching a consensus on eight major issues that they plan to raise during the Monsoon session, including the Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor, ceasefire announcement by US President Donald Trump, India’s foreign policy, and the Election Commission’s ongoing electoral rolls revision in Bihar.
The virtual meeting was attended by Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, K C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh of the Congress; Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav; TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee; Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut; NCP(SP)’s Sharad Pawar and Jayant Patil; National Conference’s Omar Abdullah; JMM’s Hemant Soren; RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav; and DMK’s Tiruchi N Siva. The CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML) Liberation were represented by D Raja, M A Baby, and Dipankar Bhattacharya respectively. Kerala Congress (M) MP Jose K Mani, RSP’s N K Premachandran, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi’s Thirumavalavan and IUML’s K M Kader Mohideen also attended the meeting.
This is going to be the first session since the April 22 Pahalgam attack, in which 25 tourists and a local ponywallah were killed. Subsequently, Operation Sindoor was conducted by the Indian armed forces in Pakistan against terror emanating from that country.
