All-party meeting be called but parties must attend only if PM Modi participates: Sibal

Kapil Sibal demands special Parliament session, all-party meeting with PM Modi present after India-Pakistan halt military actions.

With India and Pakistan agreeing to halt military actions, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday (May 11, 2025) demanded that an all-party meeting be called while urging political parties not to attend it until the government assures that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present there.

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Mr. Sibal also demanded a special session of Parliament and asserted that he was confident that if Manmohan Singh had been the Prime Minister today, he would be present in the all-party meeting, and a special session would have been called too.

Addressing a press conference, Mr. Sibal referred to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest social media post on the stoppage of military hostilities, in which the American President said that he is proud that the US was able to help arrive at this "historic and heroic decision".

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"Many questions will be raised on this tweet as well. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that for the last 48 hours, talks went on. So, what happened, how and why, no information has been given to us regarding this. They also stated that there will be a meeting at a neutral site. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also spoke with NSA Ajit Dowal," Mr. Sibal said.

"We will not issue any criticism today because this is not the time for criticism. We only want a special Parliament session and an all-party meeting to be called. I want to appeal to all political parties not to attend the meeting until the government assures them that the prime minister will be present at the meeting as well," Sibal said.