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Opp. leader in RS wasn’t consulted on not holding winter session: Jairam Ramesh

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Slamming the government for its decision to not hold Parliament’s winter session in view of COVID-19, the Congress on Tuesday said the “decimation of parliamentary democracy is complete” and asked if election campaigning can be done amid the pandemic then why can’t the session be held.

Senior Congress leader and the party’s chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh also said that the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, was not consulted on the matter. In a letter to leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said, “Winter months are very crucial for managing the pandemic because of recent spurt in cases during this period, particularly in Delhi.

At present, we are in the middle of December and a COVID vaccine is expected very soon.” The minister said he had informally contacted floor leaders of various political parties and “they have expressed their concerns about the ongoing pandemic and opined of doing away with winter session”. Responding to the minister’s remarks, Ramesh tweeted, “The Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha was not consulted. Mr. Pralhad Joshi is as usual departing from the truth.”

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