PM Modi will answer the opposition’s questions in the all party meeting on India-China issue and explain what steps the government is taking.
New Delhi| After opposition parties raised demands over India-China border tensions, Prime Minister Modi has called an All Party meeting at 5 pm today. Leaders of all major parties, including Congress’ Sonia Gandhi and TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee, will attend this meeting to be held through video conference. Modi will answer the opposition’s questions on the India-China issue and explain what steps the government is taking. Sonia Gandhi had recently demanded that the government should clear the situation.
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As per sources, parties who have at least 5 MPs in the parliament have been called for the meeting. Those who will attend the meeting include JP Nadda from BJP, Congress’ Sonia Gandhi, TMC’s Mamata Banerjee, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray, NCP’s Sharad Pawar, TDP’s N Chandrababu Naidu, YSR Congress’ Jaganmohan Reddy, AIADMK’s E Palaniswami and O Pannerselvam, DMK’s Stalin, D Raja from CPI, Sitaram Yechury from CPM, Sukhbir Badal from Akali Dal, Chirag Paswan from LJP, JDU Chief Nitish Kumar, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and TRS Chief K Chandrashekhar Rao have also been invited.
Last 2 All-Party meetings were chaired by Rajnath Singh
This will be the third all-party meeting in 6 years on the issue of security of the country’s borders. After the terrorist attack in Pulwama last year, on February 16, 2019, all parties met. Earlier, the meeting was convened on September 29, 2016, after a surgical strike in PoK. Both these meetings were chaired by the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh. But Modi himself will preside over the meeting on the issue of China.
On June 17, two days after the violent face-off in which 20 Indian soldiers were martyred, Modi said, “We want peace, but if someone instigates, we are also able to respond.”
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