NDA to launch campaign against Congress after Winter session

New Delhi: With Congress disrupting Parliament over National Herald case, NDA plans to launch a massive campaign against it after Winter Session to take the message among people about the main Opposition party's bid to "stall" key legislative measures in Rajya Sabha, where the government does not have a majority.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu held a meeting with MPs from Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir at his residence on Wednesday in this regard where he told the members that the NDA partners will take up a campaign among the people to highlight this matter after the Winter session of Parliament, official sources said.

There is a view in the government that Congress stands to gain nothing from the protest on the issue and the more it gets highlighted the more "discomfiture" it could create for the Opposition party.

Government has been attacking Congress for seeking "remedy from Parliament" for "something that happened during a judicial process" and has been suggesting that the main Opposition party was doing it to block the passage of key reform measures including GST, they said.

Naidu's meeting is a part of series of meetings that 21 Ministers are holding with NDA MPs from different States and Union Territories on the matters relating to Parliament and development issues.

Referring to the recent debate on redefining the role of Rajya Sabha in the context of the government's legislative proposals not being allowed to be passed, Naidu alleged that Congress party "desperately seeking to stall" socio-economic development of the country with the objective of showing the NDA Government in poor light.