Congress set to lift value rise; BJP meets to set technique for session

With six days to go for Parliament’s Monsoon Session, each ruling BJP and essential opposition Congress are fine-tuning their methods for the House.
While the Congress on Tuesday introduced that it will attempt to nook the federal government on the difficulty of price-rise, senior BJP leaders, together with Union ministers, met at Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s residence to debate methods for the session, which is anticipated to be rocky after the second wave of Covid-19 and poor efficiency of the ruling get together within the March-April Assembly polls.
BJP president J P Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah have been current on the assembly. Singh heads the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs. Union ministers Pralhad Joshi, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupender Yadav and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and ministers of state Arjun Ram Meghwal and V Muraleedharan, amongst others, have been additionally current.
“Around 20 party leaders attended the meeting and discussed issues likely to come up in the session, (decide) the government’s defence to the Opposition’s attack,” a supply who attended the assembly stated. “The meeting was entirely for strategising,” stated one other supply.
A supply stated, “The government is prepared to respond to all issues. The pandemic has been a global issue and we were not the only country that faced the crisis. The government has done everything possible and continues to take adequate measures.” This, the supply added, can be the “line” the treasury benches would take.
Meanwhile, arguing that inflation has been triggered by the federal government’s “wrong policies” and “its inept management of the economy”, senior Congress chief P Chidambaram stated leaders of assorted opposition events will meet later this week and formulate a joint technique.

Addressing the media, Chidambaram requested the Centre to considerably scale back costs of petrol, diesel and LPG and demanded that import duties be reviewed and reset “so that prices of essential imported goods are cheaper”. He additionally stated GST charges must be diminished on items of mass consumption.
“A government concerned about the welfare of the people and their hardships and burdens will not turn the other way when every household is agitated about rising prices,” Chidambaram stated. “The government has continued to pretend that the concern about price-rise is a false concern.” Arguing that the pandemic triggered job losses and wage cuts for hundreds of thousands, he stated, “In such a situation of widespread distress, inflation has broken the back of the people, and we hold the Centre directly responsible for the high inflation.”