NDA decides to boycott all tainted ministers

NDA has decided to boycott all tainted ministers even as its MPs took part in House proceedings.

Continuing its offensive, NDA on Wednesday decided to boycott all the tainted ministers including Railway Minister Laloo Prasad even as its MPs took part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament.

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The decision follows the report submitted by a Sub-Committee constituted at a meeting of NDA MPs on Tuesday, 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 ministers including Prasad, Taslimuddin, Jai Prakash and MAA Fatmi whenever they rise to make a statement or reply to debate in either House of the Parliament.

The ministers would also be boycotted during the Question Hour, the sources said.

The Sub-Committee included Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi, SS Ahluwalia besides BJP Deputy Leaders in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively VK Malhotra and Sushma Swaraj.

A Resolution passed on Tuesday's meeting had said that NDA will continue to articulate its demand in Parliament by focussing its protest mainly against one representative tainted minister, the Minister of Railways, in an appropriate manner.