NDA to move adjournment motion in Lok Sabha

     New Delhi: After giving indications that the Winter Session of Lok Sabha is going to be stormy, the NDA today decided to move an adjournment motion in the House on Volcker report and the revelations made by the Mitrokhin Archives. The alliance also decided to press for the resignation of Natwar Singh as Union minister and Sonia Gandhi as Chairperson of National Advisory Council, said BJP Parliamentary Party Spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra.

     "We will demand an adjournment motion condemning the sale of the country by the Congress party as substantiated by the Moynihan report, the Mitrokhin archives and the Volcker Committee report," Malhotra told reporters here after the 30-minute long meeting of senior NDA leaders. The meeting was chaired by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and NDA convener George Fernandes, BJP President LK. Advani, senior BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Sushma Swaraj were also present. In the Rajya Sabha, the NDA would move a notice under Rule 167 seeking a debate on the issues. "We are demanding only an open debate and we will press for it till the government accepts our demand," Malhotra said.

Lalu not averse to Paswan in Union cabinet

      Meanwhile, RJD leader and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today said that he would not play any role in ousting his Union cabinet colleague Ramvilas Paswan, whose party, he said, led to UPA's debacle in the just concluded Assembly polls in Bihar. Speaking to reporters at the Indira Gandhi Domestic Airport on his arrival from Patna, Lalu said, "Paswan's party got 13 percent vote, and it played a great role in the NDA's victory. But, I repeat what I have said in the past, that I am not against Paswan ... his party is a UPA ally, and I would be the happiest person if he continues with us at the Centre. I am not in favour of his ouster from the UPA or the Union Cabinet. I will not mince any words against Paswan." Accepting his defeat in the polls, Lalu once again voiced his aversion towards the BJP and its parent organisation - the RSS. "I congratulate my younger brother Nitish Kumar ahead of him being installed as the next Chief Minister, but I have a grudge that he is in a bad company of certain groups who don't believe in secularism. At this juncture, I won't congratulate the BJP ... they are simply acting as toys for the JD-U", he said. When asked if he would be invited in the tomorrow's oath taking ceremony of the next government in Bihar, the RJD leader said, "So far I haven't received any invitation. And, also I would say that if the oath taking ceremony were to he held in the Raj Bhawan, I would attend it, but I have learnt that it's being held in the Gandhi Maidan".