SOLILOQUY
Winter is here. And the Winter Session of Parliament. It got off last Monday (25.11.2024) to a rocky start. Pandemonium prevailed and both Houses were adjourned within minutes of commencement. I had expected this.
Congress being the single largest party among the I.N.D.I. Alliance in both the Houses, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in both the Houses are from Congress — Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha and Mallikarjun Kharge in the Rajya Sabha.
I will not be surprised if this Winter Session of the Parliament is washed out without any contribution from the Opposition with some entertainment to the citizens of the country and also disappointment.
This was best explained to an audience at a TV programme by our Finance Minister Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman. Of course, Rahul Gandhi is not taken seriously even by a commoner except by those in Congress.
According to Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, he will be a poor LoP, apparently, because she has seen his performance in the Lok Sabha earlier. His dress, demeanour, the way he speaks, his sitting posture with one hand thrown over the back of the seat…! Once, in the past, we remember him walking across to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hugging him in the Parliament. Speaking about Rahul Gandhi in the Parliament in a casual but careful way, Mrs. Sitharaman bent forward from her seat covering her face with both her palms. It was not difficult for the viewer to make his inference about what she thought of Rahul Gandhi as an MP and the Leader of the Opposition. Let it be.
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