New Delhi, July 16: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today held a meeting here with senior party leaders to devise the strategy for the monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 21. Senior leaders Manmohan Singh, Shivraj Patil, Arjun Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, Ahmed Patel and P R Dasmunsi participated in the meeting.
Gandhi, who is also the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, has convened a meeting of opposition leaders on July 20 to devise the floor strategy.
Asked at the party's daily press briefing whether NC president Omar Abdullah and RLD leader Ajit Singh, whose parties had recently come out of the BJP-led NDA, had been invited by Gandhi for the meeting, party spokesman Anand Sharma told reporters that he has no information in this regard.
A meeting of the general body of the Congress parliamentary party is being held on July 24, party sources said.
Bureau Report