Monsoon Session: Govt plans slew of bills, Oppn to corner it over Covid management, fuel price

As the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins from Monday, the Centre has listed 17 new bills for introduction. Meanwhile, the opposition would look to corner the Centre over a host of issues, including Covid-19 management and fuel price hike.

The government has readied a big legislative agenda for the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning Monday even as the opposition is raring to corner the ruling dispensation over a host of issues, including handling of the second wave of Covid-19, rise in fuel prices and farmers' stir. During the session, the issue of an international media consortium report would find echo in the two Houses. It claimed that over 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three opposition leaders and one sitting judge besides scores of business persons and activists, could have been targeted for hacking through an Israeli spyware sold only to the government agencies,