{"id":354037,"date":"2025-06-03T05:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354037"},"modified":"2025-06-03T05:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:59:39","slug":"opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition leaders demand special session, write to PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM-696x472.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM-619x420.jpg 619w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Opposition-leaders-demand-special-session-write-to-PM.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Photo: Naveen Bansal<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi, June 3- Mounting pressure on the Narendra Modi government, leaders of 16 opposition parties today demanded a special session of Parliament on Operation Sindoor. Writing as INDIA Bloc, leaders from the parties, including Congress, Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, and Shiv Sena (UBT), demanded the special session in a letter addressed to PM Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress\u2019 Jairam Ramesh and Deependra Hooda, TMC\u2019s Derek O\u2019Brien, SP\u2019s Ramgopal Yadav, RJD\u2019s Manoj Jha, and Shiv Sena (UBT)\u2019s Sanjay Raut were among those who attended the meeting. Signatories included the DMK but the party could not join as the meeting coincided with party supremo M Karunanidhi\u2019s birth anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201c Sixteen parties have written a letter to the Prime Minister demanding a special session of the Parliament&#8230;The letter talks about Poonch, Uri, Rajouri and having a free discussion in Parliament. The government is responsible to the Parliament. Parliament is responsible to the people, which is why we are demanding a special session. The Aam Aadmi Party will be writing directly tomorrow to the PM,\u201d TMC leader Derek O\u2019 Brien told media persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposition leaders said National Conference, CPM, IUML, CPI, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Kerala Congress, MDMK and CPI(ML) Liberation are also among the signatories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several Opposition parties have been demanding a special session of Parliament since the April-22 terror attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir that left 26 persons, mostly tourists, dead. The demand was also raised at an all-party meeting held to inform the lawmakers about Operation Sindoor under which Indian armed forces destroyed terror camps deep inside Pakistan and PoK and later bombed airbases of the neighbouring country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, June 3- Mounting pressure on the Narendra Modi government, leaders of 16 opposition parties today demanded a special session of Parliament on Operation Sindoor. Writing as INDIA Bloc, leaders from the parties, including Congress, Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, and Shiv Sena (UBT), demanded the special session in a letter addressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[19730,16062,15520,17304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354041,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354037\/revisions\/354041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}