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According to reports, the Centre has agreed to allow a debate on Operation Sindoor during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, which begins tomorrow.
However, the sources noted that the government has still to decide whether to have a debate on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral registers in poll-bound Bihar.
The Monsoon session began on July 21 and will end on August 21.
On Saturday, the Opposition INDIA bloc held a virtual meeting of 24 of its constituents, reaching an agreement on eight major issues that they intend to raise during the Monsoon session, including the Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor, US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire announcement, India’s foreign policy, and the Election Commission’s ongoing electoral roll revision in Bihar.
The virtual meeting was attended by Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, K C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh of the Congress; Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav; TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee; Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut; NCP(SP)’s Sharad Pawar and Jayant Patil; National Conference’s Omar Abdullah; JMM’s Hemant Soren; RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav; and DMK’s Tiruchi N Siva. The CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML) Liberation were represented by D Raja, M A Baby, and Dipankar Bhattacharya respectively. Kerala Congress (M) MP Jose K Mani, RSP’s N K Premachandran, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi’s Thirumavalavan and IUML’s K M Kader Mohideen also attended the meeting.
This will be the first session since the April 22 incident in Pahalgam, which killed 25 tourists and a local ponywallah. The Indian armed forces then conducted Operation Sindoor in Pakistan to combat terror emanating from that country.
Source: IE
