Cong. to raise issue in Parliament

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JULY 15. The Congress intends taking up the UTI fiasco in Parliament during the coming monsoon session. While the Government's attention was focussed on the India-Pakistan summit in Agra, the Congress began preparing for the session.

During a meeting of senior party leaders at the residence of the party president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, last evening, the party shortlisted a series of issues on which it planned to put the Government on the mat. Among the issues were the developments on the economic front, the downturn in the economy and the various scams that have occurred in the last few months.

The UTI fiasco which has affected millions of US-64 investors figures prominently on the Congress list. The Government will also have a lot of answering to do on its handling of the situation in the northeast, particularly the accord with the NSCN(I-M). The Congress has been raising the Ayodhya issue, and Ms. Gandhi has written a number of letters to the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee, asking him to direct the Uttar Pradesh Government to issue a fresh notification in the matter.

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