Sonia Gandhi seeks Sushma Swaraj’s support for food bill
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Tuesday reached out to the BJP leader Sushma Swaraj in a bid to win support for the passage of crucial bills.
The Congress president’s move came as a surprise to many as on last Friday, Swaraj had accused Gandhi of instigating her MPs to disrupt her speech in Lok Sabha. Swaraj had said it had been agreed that she will enumerate reasons for BJP’s boycott of the Parliament, following which BJP will stage a walkout to facilitate passage of the Finance Bill.
However, interruptions by Union ministers had made Swaraj angry and she blamed Gandhi for it. “I was disrupted 60 times in three minutes,” Swaraj had said.
Gandhi is known for reaching out to other parties. Earlier in this session, she had surprised her own party colleagues when she walked upto SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in Lok Sabha and asked him with folded hands to give up his demand for Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma’s resignation. Verma had accused Yadav of having sided with communal forces and that he took money to support the government from outside.
