After the BJP, it is the turn of the Left parties, and other parties of the third front including the Telegu Desam and the BSP, to demand the immediate convening of Parliament following the disclosure of a communication between the US administration and the US Congress on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Leaders of Left parties, BSP and Telugu Desam would meet President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday to demand immediate convening of Parliament session. These parties have accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of misleading the House on several issues related to deal after the 26 page letter was revealed this week.
They had also demanded the immediate convening of Parliament session to discuss several “burning” issues like the nuclear deal and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as Orissa.
Left sources said the Rashtrapati Bhavan had fixed their appointment with the President on Tuesday.
Reacting to reports on exchange of letters between the State Department and the then US House Foreign Affairs Committee on the deal in Januray, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat had said “the only option left to them (UPA) is that the Prime Minister should quit.”
“But neither will they convene Parliament session nor will they quit. It is a shameless government,” he said.
“Why are they afraid of Parliament? Why are they running away. When a serious situation had developed in Jammu and Kashmir, a session should have been convened. But by not convening the session, the government has shown complete disregard and contempt for Parliament,” he had said.