Opposition Mps Meet President

BJD president Naveen Patnaik held a meeting with his party's nine Rajya Sabha MPs on Monday and asked them to emerge as a "vibrant and strong" opposition in the Upper House of Parliament during its upcoming session that would begin on June 27.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday invited Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to his residence on December 25 for an interaction on the issue of disruptions in Parliament and the suspension of opposition MPs.

Opposition leaders today met President Murmu and submitted a memorandum over their demand for PM Modi's statement in Parliament on Manipur and to list steps needed to restore peace in the violence-hit state.

The floor leaders of the Oppositions Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) along with the 21 MPs' delegation that visited violence-hit Manipur will meet President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, informed Congress sources.

The Aam Aadmi Party will back joint Opposition candidate Margaret Alva in the upcoming polls to elect the Vice President of India, the party's MP Sanjay Singh said after the meeting of AAP's political affairs committee.

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's meeting with British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in London triggered a row back home with the BJP asking him whether he endorsed the UK opposition leader's "anti-India" views.

Former Congress MP Priya Dutt today called on Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, a day after suspected Sena workers pelted stones at a meeting organised by the Opposition party in Mumbai.

Party President Sonia Gandhi will pick the Leader of Opposition in both Houses, said sources.

A delegation of BJP leaders will meet President Pranab Mukherjee today to voice its opposition to the Ordinance providing protection to convicted MPs and urge him not to give assent to the "unconstitutional" measure.

Addressing party MPs today at a meeting in New Delhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi urged them to be defensive, stay united and attack the Opposition in the wake of the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign against the government over the coal controversy.

BJD president Naveen Patnaik held a meeting with his party's nine Rajya Sabha MPs on Monday and asked them to emerge as a "vibrant and strong" opposition in the Upper House of Parliament during its upcoming session that would begin on June 27.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday invited Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to his residence on December 25 for an interaction on the issue of disruptions in Parliament and the suspension of opposition MPs.

Opposition leaders today met President Murmu and submitted a memorandum over their demand for PM Modi's statement in Parliament on Manipur and to list steps needed to restore peace in the violence-hit state.

The floor leaders of the Oppositions Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) along with the 21 MPs' delegation that visited violence-hit Manipur will meet President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, informed Congress sources.

The Aam Aadmi Party will back joint Opposition candidate Margaret Alva in the upcoming polls to elect the Vice President of India, the party's MP Sanjay Singh said after the meeting of AAP's political affairs committee.

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's meeting with British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in London triggered a row back home with the BJP asking him whether he endorsed the UK opposition leader's "anti-India" views.

Former Congress MP Priya Dutt today called on Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, a day after suspected Sena workers pelted stones at a meeting organised by the Opposition party in Mumbai.

Party President Sonia Gandhi will pick the Leader of Opposition in both Houses, said sources.

A delegation of BJP leaders will meet President Pranab Mukherjee today to voice its opposition to the Ordinance providing protection to convicted MPs and urge him not to give assent to the "unconstitutional" measure.

Addressing party MPs today at a meeting in New Delhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi urged them to be defensive, stay united and attack the Opposition in the wake of the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign against the government over the coal controversy.