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Can the Centre keep agenda of special Parliament session a secret?
FirstpostThe Centre and the INDIA bloc, especially Congress, are at loggerheads over the unspecified agenda of the special Parliament session. As Sonia Gandhi said in a letter to PM Narendra Modi that political parties were not consulted before calling the session, the government said this is never done The Centre and the Opposition INDIA bloc are at odds over the government keeping the agenda of the upcoming special Parliament session under wraps. A war of words broke out between the Congress and the Central government on Wednesday after Grand Old Party leader Sonia Gandhi shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the special session. As Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi claimed that “consultations with other political parties are never done before calling a session”, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh hit back, alleging that he was “misleading” people. In her letter to Modi, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi highlighted that the Opposition parties have not been apprised of the agenda of the upcoming special Parliament session.
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