"NDA has decided that we will not let Parliament function tomorrow unless the issue of ethnic violence in Assam is taken up for discussion," BJP President Nitin Gadkari said at a programme here.
BJP Parliamentary Party Chief L K Advani will move an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha tomorrow during Question Hour to press for a discussion on this issue. In the Rajya Sabha, Deputy Leader of BJP Ravi Shankar Prasad and his party colleague Balbir Punj will move a suspension of Question Hour notice on the same issue.
BJP had declared in the all-party meeting called by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar yesterday that it wants a discussion on this issue on the first day of the session. In case the chair rejects the NDA demand, they are likely to disrupt proceedings tomorrow, sources said.
The main Opposition is holding a dharna tomorrow at Jantar Mantar on the issue of communal clashes in Kokrajhar.
NDA floor leaders held a meeting this evening to discuss their joint strategy in the monsoon session.
NDA Convenor and JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav said other than Assam violence, problems caused by drought and floods, FDI in retail, corruption issues raised by the CAG in its report on coal blocs allocation, civil aviation and others, power grid failure, and Centre-State relations will be raised by the BJP-led coalition. (MORE)
