The government has put together seven all-party parliamentary delegations to visit 30-plus countries to convey India’s zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism. The delegations have 59 sitting MPs. Baijayant Panda, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Shashi Tharoor, Shrikant Eknath Shinde and Supriya Sule are leading these delegations.

International parliamentary groups are formed

The Indian Parliament has always had an outward-facing role. When the country became independent, our national legislature joined two international parliamentary organisations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).