Left, SP, TDP demand fair probe into coal scam

August 31, 2012

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New Delhi, August 31: Putting up a third front on the coal scam, the Left parties, along with Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam Party, Friday staged a sit-in protest at the main gate of the Parliament House building Friday morning.

Leaders from these parties sat at the gate from where MPs enter the Parliament House building, raising slogans demanding a fair probe and debate in parliament on the coal scam.

"If anyone is preventing the truth from coming out in the coal scam, it is the BJP. Skeletons will also come out from their closet, so they are not allowing a debate," Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury said after the protest.

These parties are demanding a debate in parliament on the scam, and a fair investigation.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has been stalling parliament over the coal scam, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The main opposition party has said it will not allow parliament to function, or a debate to take place unless the prime minister resigns taking moral responsibility for the scam.

SP leader Mulayam Singh, talking to reporters after the protest, said they would take to the streets with their demand of a fair probe.

"We will hit the streets, the markets. We have decided to take forward the struggle," Yadav said.

Both houses of parliament, meanwhile, once again adjourned within minutes of meeting Friday morning, amidst the BJP's protests..

Earlier:

Coal allocation issue: SP leads dharna outside Parliament

New Delhi, August 31: SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and MPs from TDP and Left parties today sat on a dharna in front of Parliament House to seek a judicial inquiry into coal blocks allocation.

Eight parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Left, have joined hands to protest the continued disruption of Parliament and are demanding a probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the coal block allocation issue.

"Our attempt is to unite non-NDA, non-UPA parties to demarcate ourselves from BJP and Congress, both of which are involved in corruption relating to mining and therefore do not want a debate in Parliament," CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharia had said yesterday.

Acharia had said the BJP had also made similar allocation of coal blocks in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, apart from the mining scam in Karnataka.

Leaders of SP, CPI, CPI(M) and TDP met yesterday in the backdrop of Parliament failing to transact any business for almost two weeks, with the BJP continuing to create ruckus by pressing its demand for the resignation of the Prime Minister.


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