An all-party meeting called by the government ahead of the start of the Monsoon session of Parliament got underway in New Delhi on Sunday with leaders from across the political spectrum attending it.
The government is represented by senior Union Minister Rajnath Singh, deputy leader of the Lok Sabha, his cabinet colleague and BJP's leader in Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi.
Leaders from almost all parties including Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Jairam Ramesh, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)'s T.R. Baalu and Tiruchi Siva, Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s Sudeep Bandyopadhyay and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)'s Sharad Pawar were present at the meeting.