"My Support With You": Sonia Gandhi's Message To AAP's Sanjay Singh
NDTV
Members of INDIA alliance have been camping out outside parliament, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi give a statement on the issue in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Congress's Sonia Gandhi today commended Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on the Opposition's handling of the Manipur issue in Parliament -- a move seen as a fresh sign of the new bonhomie between the two parties that were not the best of friends. Members of the INDIA alliance have been camping out outside parliament, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi give a statement on the issue in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Last night they held a candle-light protest near the Gandhi statue. कांग्रेस की पूर्व अध्यक्ष श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी ने मुलाक़ात कर टीम INDIA द्वारा मणिपुर हिंसा के ख़िलाफ़ चलाये जा रहे आंदोलन पर कहा "मेरा समर्थन आपके साथ है" pic.twitter.com/h4th2ugiQu
Mr Singh tweeted a video of the interaction. "Former Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi met and said on the movement being run by Team INDIA against Manipur violence, "My support is with you," read a rough translation of his Hindi caption.
Mr Singh - suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the rest of the session during Opposition protests on Manipur -- has been spearheading the sit-in protest.
