Overview

• BJP MPs P P Chaudhary and Daggubati Purandeswari will lead cross-party delegations to the 80th UN General Assembly in New York.
• Chaudhary’s group will be in New York from October 8 to 14, and the second delegation departs from October 27.
• Each delegation comprises about 15 MPs drawn from ruling and opposition parties, signaling a plural political slate.
• Members named across the lists include Anil Baluni, Nishikant Dubey, Ujjwal Nikam, Vivek Tankha, Kumari Selja, N K Premachandran, Rekha Sharma, Manoj Kumar Jha, P Wilson, Sandeep Kumar Pathak and G K Vasan.
• Officials say the delegations will attend UN sessions and engage with India’s Permanent Mission, reviving a practice halted in 2004 with a single exception in 2012.