NEW DELHI: India is set to send two multi-party delegations of MPs to represent the country at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York. Headed by BJP MPs P P Chaudhary and Daggubati Purandeswari. According to an MP, the delegations are “non-official” and reflect Indian democracy’s united stance on global issues.
Chaudhary’s delegation, visiting from October 8 to 14, includes BJP’s Anil Baluni, Nishikant Dubey and Ujjwal Nikam, Congress leaders Vivek Tankha and Kumari Selja, SP’s Rajeev Rai and RSP’s N K Premachandran, among others. The second group, arriving October 27, features BJP MPs V D Sharma, Dilip Saikia, Rekha Sharma, RJD’s Manoj Kumar Jha, DMK’s P Wilson, TMC(M)’s G K Vasan and AAP’s Sandeep Kumar Pathak. Chaudhary also chairs the joint committee on simultaneous polls.