New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Sunday called an all-party meet to discuss agenda for Parliament's winter session which will begin from Monday.
The meeting has been called for smooth functioning of winter session of the Parliament.
The Winter Session of Parliament will begin on November 24 and end on December 23. It will consist of 22 sittings.
Rudy has asked all the parties to be present in the meet. However, the Trinamool Congress has said that it will not attend the meeting, claiming that the the meeting was called at a very short notice.
The party's senior leader Derek O'Brien has issued a statement that since the meeting was called on Sunday– day before Parliament session, the party will not be attending it.
He further said, "TMC not attending this all-party meeting. We are not available at BJP's beck and call. Written a letter recording our point of view."
"Parl Affairs Min Rajiv Rudy's called all-party meet at short notice on Sunday. Why not working day? Betrays govt panic before Session", O'Brien said.
"Govt has pro-MNC agenda. We have pro-people line. Blackmoney, poll reform, communalism, political vendetta, 100-day hoax. Will raise all", he added.
Meanwhile, speculations are doing the rounds that TMC has planned to boycott the meet after some reports claimed that another leader of the party Ahmed Hassan Imran has been summoned by CBI in connection with infamous Saradha scam.
Hassan, who is also a Rajya Sabha MP, was questioned earlier also by Enforcement Directorate.
TMC leader Srinjoy Bose, who headed Trinamool mouthpiece Jago Bangla, was arrested by CBI.
He was accused of 'blackmail' by purported scam kingpin and Saradha promoter Sudipta Sen and grilled by the CBI sleuths for nearly six hours before his eventual arrest.
"Bose has been arrested for his prima facie involvement in the Saradha scam on allegations of criminal conspiracy, misappropriation of funds and deriving undue financial benefits. He will be presented before a court Saturday," a CBI officer told a news agency.
Yesterday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while hitting out at BJP, said that she does not need character certificate from the BJP and that her credentials are known to people.
Calling the arrest of TMC MPs as "political vendetta”, Banerjee said: “Just because I went to Delhi to attend a conclave of secular parties, they took revenge by nabbing our MPs”.
There are 67 bills currently pending before the Parliament. Of these, nine bills were introduced in the previous Session of Parliament, while 40 of these were introduced in the 15th Lok Sabha, which was the regime of the UPA II Government. 18 other bills are pending from the earlier Lok Sabhas.
(With Agency inputs)
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