Om Birla's vision aims to promote global legislative engagement and trust

In a significant step to widen India’s inter-parliamentary engagement with the world, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has constituted Parliamentary Friendship Groups with more than 60 countries.

- First India Bureau

The move reflects a conscious effort by the Indian Parliament to deepen dialogue and exchanges with legislatures across continents and to complement traditional diplomacy with sustained parliamentary interaction. The Friendship Groups bring together Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum. Senior leaders including Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dr M Thambidurai, P Chidambaram, Prof Ram Gopal Yadav, TR Baalu, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Gaurav Gogoi, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Manish Tiwari, Derek O’Brien, Abhishek Banerjee, Asaduddin Owaisi, Akhilesh Yadav, KC Venugopal, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Supriya Sule, Sanjay Singh, Baijayant Panda, Dr Shashi Tharoor, Dr Nishikant Dubey, Anurag Singh