“PM Modi can run away from special session, but not from monsoon session”: Jairam Ramesh

New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that he can “run away” from a special session of Parliament being demanded by the opposition parties, but not from the monsoon session, which will be convened on July 21.
Expressing reservations over the central government not convening a special session to discuss many issues, including the deadly Pahalgam terror attack and developments following Operation Sindoor, Ramesh accused the government of “diverting attention”.
“We’ve been demanding a special session of Parliament. Yesterday, 16 political parties also wrote. In order to divert attention from the special session, the government suddenly announces the monsoon session of Parliament. The Prime Minister can run away from a special session, but he cannot run away from the Monsoon session,” Ramesh told ANI.
He said that the INDIA bloc parties are demanding a special session to be convened immediately since the issues that need to be discussed are “agitating” people in the country now. Ramesh raised concerns about the sudden halt on Operation Sindoor and the revelations made by Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan in Singapore about India’s losses and gains during the recently concluded conflict.
“We are demanding a discussion on these issues now because these are the issues agitating the people of India now. Why was Operation Sindoor stopped after four days? What has the CDS said in Singapore? Why has Trump, in the last 20 days, repeated 12 times that it is because of him that a ceasefire happened between India and Pakistan? These are the issues the Prime Minister doesn’t want to answer,” the Congress leader said.
He further argued that this was the first time in the parliamentary history of India that a session had been announced 47 days in advance, and this came despite the continuous demands made by the opposition parties to convene a special session.
“The parliament session is always announced a few days in advance…maybe a maximum of one week or 10 days in advance. Never before in India’s parliamentary history has a session been announced 47 days in advance. The object(ive) is very simple. There is a continuing demand from Congress and INDIA parties for a special session of Parliament to discuss the Pahalgam terror attack,” Ramesh said.
He highlighted the concerns regarding the “hyphenation” of India and Pakistan and the repeated claims made by US President Donald Trump that he was responsible for a “ceasefire” between the two neighbouring countries.
“The fact that terrorists themselves haven’t been brought to justice, the repeated claims of (US) President Trump…the Narendra ka Surrender to Trump. The hyphenation of India and Pakistan, the growing nexus between China and Pakistan, the failure of our diplomacy and foreign policy and the revelation of the Chief of Defence Staff that has been in Singapore and not in our country. These are the real issues,” Ramesh said.
Earlier in the day, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju announced that the Monsoon session of the Parliament will commence from July 21 and run till August 12. Both Houses of the Parliament are scheduled to convene on July 21 at 11 am, after a break of over three months.
The upcoming Monsoon session will be the first Parliament session following Operation Sindoor, which India launched on May 7 in response to a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives. (ANI)

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