Eighteen Opposition parties will come together to take on the Government in Parliament during the Monsoon beginning July 17 over demonetisation, GST and various other issues.
leaders of these parties discussed the broad strategy and issues to be taken up in Parliament on Tuesday during their meeting, which was convened mainly to discuss the opposition's nominee for the Vice Presidential polls.The parties had a broad agreement on five issues over they will target the Government both within and outside the Parliament. They will also use the social media platform to attack the Government on these issues.
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.