
The BJP plans to use the controversy surrounding Volcker committee report on the oil-for-food programme and the Mitrokhin Archive to launch a broadside against the government in the winter session of Parliament.
BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra today said the party had moved notices on the Volcker report and the Mitrokhin Archive. 8216;8216;These are major crimes. We want a full discussion on these issues,8217;8217; he said.
Malhotra said 8216;8216;Parliament will be rocked8217;8217; and added that the party would demand the resignation of Natwar Singh from the Cabinet and Sonia Gandhi from the National Advisory Council over allegations in the Volcker committee report. On Natwar Singh, he said, 8216;8216;You cannot order an inquiry against him and then allow him to stay as a minister.8217;8217;
He said the BJP had given notices on 40 issues. One of them is Naxalite violence in Jehanabad and elsewhere. He accused the Congress of joining hands with the Naxalites and Maoists for electoral gain and said this had allowed the extremist groups to make inroads into 150 to 200 areas in the country. The party would also take up terrorist violence, especially the recent bomb blasts in Srinagar and Delhi.
Malhotra said the Supreme Court verdict declaring the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly as unconstitutional was a 8216;8216;slap on the face of the government8217;8217; and the party would put the government in the dock over this. The BJP would also oppose 8216;8216;perversion8217;8217; of text-books, which, he said, were being used to give wrong information about Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Jats.
The BJP parliamentary party will meet on the morning of November 23, before the start of the session.