32-hr Debate on Op Sindoor Kicks Off from Monday

AS the stand-off between Centre and the Opposition continued on the fifth day of the Monsoon session of Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday convened an all-party meeting where Opposition parties agreed to the agenda of taking up a special discussion on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor on Monday in Lok Sabha and the next day in Rajya Sabha, brightening the prospect of normalcy in both Houses.

- PREETHA NAIR @New Delhi

Briefing the media, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the decision to start a special discussion on the "Terrorist attack in Pahalgam and in response to that Operation Sindoor carried out by the Indian Armed Forces" was agreed to at a meeting of leaders of different parties chaired by Speaker Om Birla.