All eyes are on Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who had led the delegation to the US among other countries, and may be picked as a speaker by the Congress, as the seasoned Lok Sabha member’s enthusiastic endorsement of the government’s action following the terror attack has allegedly soured his ties with his party. There is no clarity from Congress sources on whether he will speak.However, sources said that if Congress does not include Tharoor in the speaker list, the Lok Sabha Speaker has the discretion to invite him to speak on Operation Sindoor since he led an important delegation.While 65 minutes have been allotted for the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav and Rajeev Rai will speak on the issue. Besides its battery of ministers and leaders like Anurag Thakur, Sudhanshu Trivedi and Nishikant Dubey, the ruling NDA is expected to field its members from the seven multi-party delegations that had travelled to over 30 world capitals to present India’s case after Operation Sindoor. They include Shrikant Shinde of the Shiv Sena, Sanjay Jha of the JD(U), and Harish Balayogi of the TDP, among others.A bone of contention that remains between the government and the Opposition is the latter’s demand for a discussion over the SIR in Bihar.However, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has said that every issue cannot be taken up for discussion in Parliament at once, and the government will take a call on the demand for debate on the SIR later, in line with the rules.
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