The NDA today said it was ready for a five-day special session to compensate for the loss of work due to the current deadlock in Parliament provided the government concedes to the Opposition demand for JPC probe into the 2G spectrum issue.

"Let the government hold a special session of Parliament for five days after constituting the Joint Parliamentary Committee. We are ready to sit till midnight to complete the Parliament work," JD-U chief Sharad Yadav told reporters here.

Yadav, who is also the convener of NDA, made the remarks hours after a meeting of the BJP-led alliance in the morning.

Sources said that the NDA meeting attended by leaders from BJP, JD-U, Shiv Sena and Akali Dal, discussed the idea of the special session but ruled out any such concession unless the JPC demand is accepted by the government.

The NDA meeting also discussed the issue of "JPC-versus Murali Manohar Joshi headed Public Accounts Committee" in the light of the PAC becoming "highly active" in pursuing the 2G scam issue after the CAG report was tabled in Parliament.

The NDA leaders felt that PAC becoming active at this juncture could undermine the Opposition's campaign for JPC.

The Congress took the opportunity to make a major issue out of it saying BJP should explain whether it does not trust its own senior leader. The ruling party at the Centre has also been repeatedly referring to Joshi's remarks that PAC has the powers to investigate all aspects of the scam.

"There was a view that the JPC demand should not be diluted. Even BJP leaders raised the issue," a senior leader of NDA told PTI.

The meeting also chalked out plans for a rally against corruption once the Parliament session is over.

The prospective date for the rally was also discussed keeping in mind the forthcoming Plenary session of Congress and Muharram.

Sources said that the strategy of the NDA would be to make this agitation a rallying point for all opposition parties on the lines of July 5 Bharat Bandh against price hike.

JD-U chief Sharad Yadav is said to be in touch with parties like AGP, TDP, AIADMK and INLD over the issue. Yadav is learnt to have also apprised the BJP of his party's reservations over the continuance of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa inspite of serious corruption charges against him.

Significantly, the NDA meeting took place a day after the non-NDA opposition parties held a separate meeting on the JPC issue in which the Left parties and JD (Secular) said BJP has no moral right to raise the issue of corruption after the Karnataka episode.

"There are difficulties on certain things. But there is issue based unity among the opposition parties and hence the plan is to make the agitation as comprehensive as possible. Even if some parties hold separate rallies on the same day, our purpose of opposition unity is served," a leader said.

"All opposition parties may not be united but this issue of corruption is pinching everybody. Our efforts will be to ensure that more and more people join the agitation," Yadav told reporters in his party office.

The JD-U chief said the UPA government is not agreeing to JPC as it fears that many persons behind the scam would be exposed.

"This (2G scam) is a dark chamber which they want to keep shut lest it blackens many other faces," he alleged, wondering how can a Minister ignore the Prime Minister's directive.

"How can he (former Telecom Minister A Raja) ignore the suggestions of Finance and Law Ministries," Yadav asked.

Yadav said even when the government is run in a coalition arrangement "it has a dignity", and the NDA had also run coalition government in the country.

"Government is arguing that PAC can also do what JPC can do in the matter. Is that an argument? Then why four JPCs were set up even when a PAC was existing. Has the PAC done anything in last 63 years? I do not know why the government is hesitant to accept JPC even when the government's allies NCP, Trinamool Congress and DMK have said they have no problem with it," Yadav said.

The JD-U leader said he has no objection if the government constitutes JPC to probe the issue with retrospective effect since 1998 when NDA was in power.

Asked about the government's contention that the Opposition's only aim is to summon the Prime Minister before JPC and not to unearth corruption, Yadav wondered, "How can they question the intention of JPC, which is a mini Parliament. How can they speak on behalf of the Parliamentary body on what it plans to do."

Asked about government's remarks that the opposition is free to bring a no-confidence motion against the UPA government, Yadav said the opposition has no such political agenda on whether the government should remain or not.

He said the real issue was how to strengthen the investigating agencies like CBI and CVC, "which have lost credibility" and demanded that the JPC should also debate this issue.

Yadav hit out at the government over the controversy surrounding the continuance of Chief Vigilance Commissioner P J Thomas.

"The institution of CVC was made to act as a check and balance on bureaucrats but now a person like Thomas has occupied the CVC post, who is not ready to step down. There is a real need to strengthen the institutions," Yadav said.