The Congress in its plan to mobilise the opposition parties following Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha plans to talk to the opposition parties to bring a no-confident motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The proposal was kept in a meeting of the Congress MPs, sources said. On Monday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge convened a meeting of opposition leaders. 19 opposition parties, including Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, are on board with the Congress, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday, announcing the party’s month-long programme to ‘save democracy’.
Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case brought the opposition parties together as the non-Congress parties called the conviction ‘politically motivated’. Immediately after the conviction, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha which consolidated the opposition unit, though the Congress maintained that no talks of fighting the 2024 Lok sabha election took place as ‘saving democracy’ is the primary objective.
The Congress on Tuesday announced a month-long protest programme across the nation which will start with a ‘Save democracy’ peace march in Delhi on Tuesday. In the later stage of the protest, national-level leaders of opposition parties will be invited.
While this is the ground-level plan Congress has laid, in the Lok Sabha, the party wants to bring a no-confidence motion against the Speaker on next Monday for being biased in the House.
