Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party for disruption of Parliament on coal block allocations issue, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked the party why it was not ready for a debate, daring it to face questions on allocations made during the National Democratic Alliance rule.
"If the BJP has such a strong case, why don't they debate the subject in Parliament," he said, reacting to BJP leader Arun Jaitley's criticism of the government and his assertion that his party is in no mood to allow the Parliament to function till its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation is met.
Jaitley told a press conference in Delhi on Saturday that a nationwide debate is on on the coal block issue though it is not taking place in the Parliament. "Our strategy does not permit that we allow the government to use the Parliament to end this debate without any accountability. We want