BJP and its allies prepared themselves for the big fight against the UPA government on the twin issues of black money and price rise.
Gearing up for yet another season of confrontations with the Congress, the NDA, claiming tacit support of the Left parties, has decided to move an adjournment motion at the start of winter session of Parliament.
After an hour-long huddle at BJP parliamentary group chairperson LK Advani’s residence here, the BJP and its allies prepared themselves for the big fight against the UPA government on the twin issues of black money and price rise.
After the meeting, NDA spokesperson SS Ahluwalia told reporters that while the opposition alliance’s main agenda was “insisting that the government furnishes names of persons with illegal bank accounts in foreign countries,” the Left would “make price rise” its core subject for the winter session, opening on Tuesday.
“As two formations cannot bring two different adjournment motions essentially against the same government, it makes sense to have this understanding,” Ahluwalia said referring to the mood within the NDA and the Left.
When contacted by DNA, Left MPs were, however, cautious not to confirm the NDA-announced “arrangement,” saying merely that price rise and black money and FDI in retail topped their anguish list.
The NDA would also “disallow” Union home minister P Chidambaram from attending Parliament, Alhuwalia said and added that till Chidambaram resigned, “we will boycott him.”
The BJP has alleged for a while that Chidambaram — when he was finance minister — was “as culpable if not more” as jailed former telecommunications minister A Raja for “illegal and arbitrary” allocation of 2G spectrum in 2007.
Alhuwalia, however, said he was not aware if the Left would be party to the boycott programme.
Among a host of other issues, NDA parliamentarians were expected to ask parliament to notify the definition of BPL (below poverty line). “The Planning Commission cannot decide who the BPL people are, it is for Parliament to decide,” Alhuwalia said reminding Planning Commission deputy-chairperson Montek Singh Alhuwalia’s controversial affidavit to the Supreme Court capping urban poverty at Rs32 per person and rural poverty at Rs26 per person.
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