Lokpal drama reaches Rashtrapati Bhavan

BJP knocks doors of president, PM to brief her on Lokpal fiasco

GN Bureau | January 2, 2012



The fiasco of the Lokpal bill in the Rajya Sabha and a miserable leadership failure of the prime minister is all set to reach the door step of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Prime minister Manmohan Singh is to brief president Prathibha Patil a day after her return from Hydreabad on Wednesday. It is a constitutinal obligation for a prime minister to brief the president on functioning of parliament.

Meanwhile, the president has given appointment to a BJP delegation on Thursday at 1230 - soon after her scheduled meeting with the PM. Similarly, she will also receive leaders of major political parties. There are eight requests pending with the presidnet secretariat from political parties. Since BJP is the principal opposition, the president has given time to LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley from that party.

BJP on Monday held media briefing by its chief spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad and on Sunday BJP leader Arun Jaitley gave an interview to NDTV's Barkha Dutt on the UPA's failure to get the Lokpal bill passed in Rajya Sabha.

A detailed memorandum on how UPA 'choreographed' the drama in the Rajya Sabha was being drafted by BJP parliamentary party for presentation to the president. BJP will also hit the Congress as the 'delaying tactics' decision was taken at the Congress Core Committee meeting held at 5.30 inside the parliament house.

The Congress Core Committee met thrice on that day to discuss how to woo Trinamool and BSP. The BJP memorandum also lists out the sequences of events - how the Core Committee authorised its leader to contact the president, who has been vacationing in Hyderabad for ten days, to seek consent to extend the session beyond midnight and how the UPA did not give an indication of a late night sitting to the chairman of Rajya Sabha.
 

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