Top Left leaders reviewed the continued disruption of Parliament on the issue, which they felt was the "biggest scam in history", sources said.
Irked by the government's refusal to accept the demand for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the second-generation mobile telephony spectrum scam, Left parties today decided to organise protests across the country to "take the issue to the people".
Top Left leaders, at a meeting here, reviewed the continued disruption of Parliament on the issue, which they felt was the "biggest scam in history", Left sources said.
They decided to consult other non-NDA political parties, with whom they have been coordinating in Parliament, to launch protest actions, including demonstrations and rallies, in different parts of the country.
The Left leaders would be talking to leaders of other political parties like BJD, AIADMK, TDP, RLD, AGP, MDMK and JD(S) over the next few days to chalk out the agitational programme, the sources said.
The meeting was attended by Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury (both CPI-M), AB Bardhan, D Raja (both CPI) and Abani Roy (RSP). Leaders of Forward Bloc were not present as they were attending their organisational meeting.
The tug-of-war in Parliament on the 2G spectrum issue has intensified with 11 non-NDA opposition parties declaring that nothing short of a JPC would suffice and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should appear before the panel.
After a meeting of the 11 parties, Yechury had yesterday said the government knows that the Prime Minister was the most experienced person and he had faced JPC as finance minister.
"If that (JPC on 2G mobile bandwidth) happens, he will face it as prime minister. I do not think he is afraid of (facing JPC), if necessary, in the interest of the country. If somebody else is afraid, it is the problem of Congress," he said.
CPI's Dasgupta had said "if Bill Clinton could be called by a parliamentary committee and if the British Prime Minister could be summoned, then what is wrong in inviting our head of the government to explain".
The 11 non-NDA opposition parties had met to chalk out a common strategy on the issue as the government has consistently rejected the demand. The MPs of these parties today staged a protest sit-in inside Parliament House.
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