NEW DELHI: With the Centre delaying Winter Session of Parliament by almost a month, the opposition parties will use "every possible forum to discuss the issues that the government is trying to avoid," said Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien on Thursday.
The Trinamool leader was speaking at a function to release his book "Inside Parliament."
He alleged that the government is avoiding a debate on the "real issues" due to the ongoing assembly elections in Gujarat. This shows that the government is on the "defensive", he claimed.
"There are clear instances that show the defensive tactics of the government, such as the petrol price rollback, on GST when the government had to take off 150 items from its list, and the fact that the Parliament session has been delayed. The government is clearly on the defensive," O'Brien said.
Taking off from his essay titled "The BJP is beatable in 2019", the TMC MP outlined the broad opposition strategy to get together to throw out the Narendra Modi government. "The Modi government must go" said O'Brien as he explained how "PM Modi will have to fight 29 different battles in 29 different states" where the forces will be different.
The TMC MP said "the opposition has to play up its strength in each state - the TMC in Bengal, the DMK in Tamil Nadu or the Congress in Karnataka, for instance. The BJP narrative that others are corrupt and BJP is not, will not work," he said adding, "the Opposition strategy is also avoiding the false narrative of the BJP as we believe that there is a real narrative - JUDGE -- that stands for Jobs, Unemployment, Demonetisation, GST and Economy. And, there is a separate issue on the plight of farmers." He explained that the Opposition hopes to bring up these real issues that people are suffering from and hence the BJP will have to have a "defensive" campaign. "People are very wise and they understand the real issues" he said.
Some of the other opposition leaders met at a separate function on Thursday, where they conveyed the same strategy of their parties working jointly against the ruling BJP. Opposition leaders said they will take up GST, demonetisation, growing unemployment, intolerance among other issues in the winter session and that they will also target BJP chief Amit Shah over reports that his son's company saw a huge rise in its turnover after the Modi government came to power in 2014. The Coordination committee of the Opposition parties that plan to meet in mid-December, includes Congress, Left Parties, the TMC and the DMK.
The Trinamool leader was speaking at a function to release his book "Inside Parliament."
He alleged that the government is avoiding a debate on the "real issues" due to the ongoing assembly elections in Gujarat. This shows that the government is on the "defensive", he claimed.
"There are clear instances that show the defensive tactics of the government, such as the petrol price rollback, on GST when the government had to take off 150 items from its list, and the fact that the Parliament session has been delayed. The government is clearly on the defensive," O'Brien said.
Taking off from his essay titled "The BJP is beatable in 2019", the TMC MP outlined the broad opposition strategy to get together to throw out the Narendra Modi government. "The Modi government must go" said O'Brien as he explained how "PM Modi will have to fight 29 different battles in 29 different states" where the forces will be different.
The TMC MP said "the opposition has to play up its strength in each state - the TMC in Bengal, the DMK in Tamil Nadu or the Congress in Karnataka, for instance. The BJP narrative that others are corrupt and BJP is not, will not work," he said adding, "the Opposition strategy is also avoiding the false narrative of the BJP as we believe that there is a real narrative - JUDGE -- that stands for Jobs, Unemployment, Demonetisation, GST and Economy. And, there is a separate issue on the plight of farmers." He explained that the Opposition hopes to bring up these real issues that people are suffering from and hence the BJP will have to have a "defensive" campaign. "People are very wise and they understand the real issues" he said.
Some of the other opposition leaders met at a separate function on Thursday, where they conveyed the same strategy of their parties working jointly against the ruling BJP. Opposition leaders said they will take up GST, demonetisation, growing unemployment, intolerance among other issues in the winter session and that they will also target BJP chief Amit Shah over reports that his son's company saw a huge rise in its turnover after the Modi government came to power in 2014. The Coordination committee of the Opposition parties that plan to meet in mid-December, includes Congress, Left Parties, the TMC and the DMK.
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