CCPA to take call on opposition's demand for special session of Parliament: Meghwal

Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal addresses opposition demands for a special Parliament session following a terror attack.

Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Wednesday (April 30, 2025) said the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs will take a call on the demand of several opposition parties, including the Congress, for a special session of Parliament over the Pahalgam terror attack.

Mr. Meghwal, who is a state minister in the parliamentary affairs department and also holds the independent charge in the law ministry, told reporters that the decision of the CCPA, which takes a call on convening the session, will be conveyed once it decides.

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The Union Cabinet is meeting on Wednesday (April 30, 2025).

Several opposition leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a session of Parliament to present a collective resolve following the April 22 terror strike which left 26 people, mostly tourists, killed.

At the press conference, Mr. Meghwal slammed Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over a picture showing one-half each of B.R. Ambedkar’s and the former Mr. Yadav’s face.

The BJP leader said the picture is an insult to Ambedkar, seen to be the architect of the Constitution and an icon, especially among Dalits.