Parliamentary floor leaders of 17 parties met at Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence for a dinner meeting to discuss the strategy for the Winter Session of Parliament. There were no representatives from Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Bal Thackeray). It was decided at the meeting that the next summit of the INDIA parties will be held soon in the third week of December after consulting with the other party chiefs.
The Congress last week had called for a meeting of heads of INDIA bloc parties on December 6. The meeting, however, could not take place as at least three senior leaders — TMC’s Mamata Banerjee, DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar — expressed their inability to attend the meet. Instead, it was decided that a meeting of Parliamentary leaders would be held.
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