Ahead of the upcoming monsoon session, Congress parliamentary strategy group meets

Ahe of monsoon session of  parliament, Congress parliamentary strategy group meeting, chaired by interim president Sonia Gandhi, began on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Az, Kodikunnil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Manish Tewari, and Anand Sharma, among ors, attended meeting held via video conferencing.

This meeting also comes as Congress has been vehemently rebuking ' question hour' decision.  decision to cancel Question Hour in Monsoon session of Parliament beginning September 14 amid coronavirus pandemic has caused consternation among Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs)

Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Sunday sought to take a moral high ground on row over scrapping of Question Hour in  Monsoon session of Parliament. Ramesh recalled that he would look forward to Question Hour during his tenure as a Union Minister. Furrmore, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Pras Singh raised a question over significance of a Parliament session if government would t take questions on China, ecomy and COVID-19 pandemic.

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Monsoon session will begin from September 14

Parliament's monsoon session will begin from September 14, said a tification issued by Lok Sabha Secretariat.  tification issued by Lok Sabha Secretariat said President Ram Nath Kovind has called lower house to meet on Monday, September 14 at 9 AM. Sitting in Upper House will be held from 3 PM to 7 PM. On subsequent days, proceedings in Rajya Sabha will be held from 9 AM till 1 PM while time for Lok Sabha sittings has been fixed from 3 PM to 7 PM.

Lok Sabha Secretariat furr said that change is only for monsoon session and Question hour will be back in winter session. re will be in total 18 consecutive sittings with holiday or weekend break, according to officials.

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COVID-19 precautions

Taking in stock COVID situation, government is looking to strictly here to all COVID-19 related standard operating procedures (SOPs), including social distancing and sanitization. A proposal for changing rules for entry of journalists in Parliament premises is also being considered owing to COVID-19 pandemic.

It is also looking to change timings of both Houses to prevent any overcrowding in Parliament premises at any point of time.  re are also proposals to install an ultraviolet irriation system in air-conditioning unit to kill germs and viruses. 

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(Inputs: ANI)