Continuing its offensive against the United Progressive Alliance government, the opposition National Democratic Alliance today decided to boycott all the "tainted" ministers, including Railway Minister Lalu Prasad. But the NDA Members of Parliament took part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament.
The decision follows the report submitted by a sub-committee constituted at a meeting of NDA parliament members in New Delhi yesterday, which decided to give up the strategy of stalling parliamentary proceedings, party sources said.
The five-member committee, formed to discuss the BJP-led alliance's future mode of protest, suggested that NDA MPs boycott all the four "tainted" such as Taslimuddin, Jai Prakash, and M A A Fatmi, besides Lalu Prasad. The committee said whenever any of these four rise to make a statement or reply to debate in either House of the
Parliament, they would boycott the proceedings.
The ministers would also be boycotted during Question Hour, the sources said.
The Sub-Committee included Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi, and S S Ahluwalia besides the Bharatiya Janata Party's deputy leaders in Lok Sabha and Rajya
Sabha, V K Malhotra and Sushma Swaraj respectively.
A resolution passed at yesterday's meeting had said NDA will continue to articulate its demand in Parliament by focusing its protest "mainly" against one representative 'tainted' minister, the Minister of Railways, in an "appropriate manner".