Stepping up the attack on the government and Congress, MPs of BJP-led NDA will hold a dharna in Parliament House tomorrow, the last day of Monsoon session, to protest against the refusal to cancel the licenses of coal blocks.
Congress has already announced a week-long nation wide campaign to counter the Opposition allegations.
Alleging that Congress is "defending the indefensible" in Coalgate, BJP posed seven questions on the reported anomalies insisting that each allotment has the "stamp of approval" by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"Congress is neck-deep involved in Coalgate.... They are defending the indefensible. They first deny the existence of any scam. Then they try to destroy the credibility of the Constitutional agency which brings out their corruption and after failing in this they resort to diversionary tactics," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
Countering it, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said that the BJP's questionairre is "false" and that the coal blocks were allocated on the recommendations of the state governments of coal bearing states, which was mostly ruled by the BJP.
Asking the BJP to "follow the Rajdharma of Atal Behari Vajpayee and not the Rajniti dharma", Sibal singled out Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley for his statement that there are occassions when obstructions in Parliament bring greater benefit to the country.
The Union Minister said the statement was an "affront to people" and "one of the most denigrating to Parliamentary democracy made in the last 60 years" that strikes at the very root of democracy. (MORE)
