Reshaping its strategy, opposition National Democratic Alliance Friday said it will not stall Parliament proceedings from Monday if its notice on adjournment motion on the Volcker issue was accepted on that day.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance, which had given an adjournment notice on Volcker committee findings along with the issues of Mitrokhin archives and Daniel Patrick Moynihan allegations about pay-offs to Congress, decided to separate the last two matters and take them up later in the session.
The decision was taken at a meeting of NDA leaders, chaired by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, after Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee conveyed that he could consider a fresh adjournment motion only if one issue was mentioned in it, Deputy Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha V K Malhotra told reporters.
"We have decided that if on Monday our adjournment motion is accepted for discussion, we will end disruption of the House and proceedings can take place smoothly," he said. "We hope our motion will be accepted."
The BJP leader said the government has already expressed readiness to discuss the Volcker issue under Rule 184 which entails voting.
The opposition alliance has been stalling the proceedings of Parliament for last two days over Volcker, Mitrokhin and Moynihan issues.
Insisting that it was "improper" for Sonia Gandhi to remain Congress president and for Natwar Singh to continue as a minister in the wake of Volcker Committee findings, he said the opposition will continue to press for their resignation.