Rahul Gandhi meets opposition leaders over breakfast, rides bicycle to Parliament to protest fuel hike

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hosted a breakfast meeting for leaders of several opposition parties to chalk out a joint strategy to present a united face in the remaining part of the monsoon session of Parliament on issues including alleged surveillance through Pegasus spyware.
After the meeting, Rahul rode a bicycle to the Parliament in protest of rise in fuel prices particularly petrol which has crossed Rs 100 per litre mark in various parts of the country.

Apart from around 100 MPs of the Congress, leaders of several opposition parties including Trinamool Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena, CPI-M, CPI, RJD and Samajwadi Party attended the meeting.

Leaders of JMM, JKNC besides IUML, RSP, KCM and RSP were also present at the meeting.
Trinamool Congress, which had skipped the last meeting of Opposition leaders by Gandhi, was also present at today's breakfast meet.

Besides Gandhi, senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh were present at the meeting.
The meeting comes amid continued standoff between the opposition and the government over the Pegasus snooping issue with the opposition demanding a discussion in Parliament and a Supreme Court monitored probe in the matter.
The government is, however, saying that this is a non-issue and does not want it to be discussed in Parliament.