On Tuesday, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi gave dinner to party MPs. Former party president Rahul Gandhi and some other MPs were not present at the banquet. This banquet is likely to strengthen the party's power.
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According to media reports, Sonia has given dinner to the party MPs in the middle of the winter session of Parliament at a time when the political stirring about the Citizenship Amendment Bill is intensifying. This bill will be put in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday for the purpose of discussion and passage. Congress is opposing the bill, calling it unconstitutional.
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Significantly, the Lok Sabha had approved the Citizenship Amendment Bill on Monday night. There is a provision to make people of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who came to India due to religious persecution from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan eligible to apply for Indian citizenship.
