No question of cooperation in Parliament, BJP tells UPA

Slamming the UPA government for adopting A the pathA of confrontation with the Opposition, the BJP today made A it clear that it was in no mood to let passage of bills in Parliament. "No question of BJP's cooperation in passing bills in Parliament. A Confrontation and cooperation cannot go together," senior party leader A M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.

Naidu said the Joint Parliamentary Committee's draft report on 2G A issue, that gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was A leaked and Congress wants BJP members on JPC -- Jaswant Singh, Yashwant A Sinha and Ravi Shankar Prasad -- removed. "The Congress can remove all opposition members from Parliament A itself just as it did during the Emergency," Naidu, said, adding, A seeking exit of BJP members on the JPC spoke of the "evil mind" of A the government.

Naidu said the "Congress-led government has been caught with its A pants down" with the CBI's affidavit filed in the Supreme Court yesterday A stating that its status report on "Coalgate" was shared with Law A Minister Ashwani Kumar and Prime Minister's Office. "The CBI affidavit had proved that PMO officials and Law Minister A were privy to the report, vindicated BJP's position that the central A agency was being misused for political and partisan ends and that A CBI had become Congress Bureau of Investigation," the BJP leader said.

Asserting that the UPA government had been reduced to a minority A with several of its allies deserting it, he said it was surviving A because of the CBI. "This government has become vulnerable and may A fall any time," he said. Lok Sabha polls were imminent after the A Karnataka Assembly elections.

On Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's attack on the BJP government A in Karnataka, whom he had accused of creating a "world record" in A corruption, Naidu said the Congress leader promising a clean administration A was the "joke of the century as Congress and clean cannot go together." Naidu said BJP was gaining strength day by day in Karnataka and A despite "initial doubts", it would secure a clear majority.