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Stormy monsoon session looms, 18 Oppn parties to take on govt

Eighteen opposition parties have come together to take on the government in Parliament during the Monsoon session session beginning July 17 over demonetisation, GST and various other issues, according to political sources.
Leaders of these parties discussed the broad strategy and issues to be taken up in Parliament during the meeting here on Tuesday, which was primarily convened to discuss the opposition's nominee for the Vice Presidential polls.
There was a "broad agreement" on five issues over which the 18 parties will target the government inside Parliament as also outside Parliament and through the social media, the sources said.
These issues are -- "ill-effects of demonetisation", "rushing through the GST implementation", "farmers' distress and suicides", alleged "political vendetta", protection of federal structure of the country and "spreading of fake news and inciting people communally", they said.
Referring to the alleged "political vendetta", the sources said there have been cases against Trinamool Congress leaders in "Narada scam" and raids on former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's family as also on the family of RJD chief Lalu Prasad.
Tuesday's meeting was attended by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien, JD(U)'s Sharad Yadav, NCP's Praful Patel, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, Samajawadi Party leader Naresh Agrawal, BSP's Satish Mishra as also leaders from 10 other parties.
TMC's Derek O'Brien did not go into details of the deliberations of that meeting but said, "individual parties will have their issues to be taken up but on some issues, there is a broad understanding among the 18 parties."
O'Brien added that "We are all working as a team" and "There is no question of one-upmanship by an party in the opposition."
In the 545-member Lok Sabha, the Congress has 45 members while Trinamool Congress has 34.
At the meeting, the sources said, Naresh Agrawal of Samajwadi Party suggested that the opposition parties should have such interactions at least once a month to coordinate their positions.
Such meetings should be held not only in Delhi but also in state capitals, Agrawal suggested, according to the sources.
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