Aatmja Kumari(Intern Journalist):The monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to begin on 14 September. Elections are to be held for the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on the first day of the session and opposition parties are planning to field DMK MP Tiruchi Siva as their candidate. The nomination deadline is September 11 at 12 noon. MP Shiva has been elected to the Rajya Sabha four times. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996 from Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu.
Shiva will come to Delhi on 10 September. After this, a final decision will be taken regarding his candidature. The name of the candidate has not been announced by the NDA so far, but it is expected that JDU member Harivansh Narayan Singh may be the candidate for the post again.
On Tuesday, at a meeting of the party’s strategy group led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, it has been decided that a joint candidate will be fielded by the opposition for the election of Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha. During the Parliament session, various issues were also discussed to surround the Modi government. This includes several key issues including tensions with China at the border, the Covid-19 epidemic crisis and a decline in GDP growth.
Sources said that the digital meeting of the strategic group led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi decided that the UPA’s constituents and other like-minded parties would join hands with the opposition’s common candidate for the post of Deputy Chairman. Will be attempted.
The senior leader of the Opposition informed on the condition of anonymity that DMK MP Tiruchi Siva is being discussed in the election for the post of Congress Deputy Chairman. It is noteworthy that due to the epidemic, proper arrangements have been made in the Parliament for the monsoon session. This time several changes have also been made for the House meeting.
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