New Delhi, September 24
The BJP today announced a week-long agitational campaign against alleged KGB funding of the Congress and CPI from tomorrow with its top leaders, including former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and outgoing party president L.K. Advani leading the programme.
Under the slogan of ‘Congress-Communist jawab do’, the BJP will hold public rallies, demonstrations and sit-ins across the country to press the demand for a thorough probe into allegations that the Congress and CPI used to receive funds from erstwhile Soviet intelligence agency KGB.
While Mr Vajpayee and senior leaders Mr M Venkaiah Naidu and Mr Arun Jaitley would address a programme in the capital tomorrow, Mr Advani will participate in a programme at Somnath, where he kicked off his historic Rath Yatra in 1989, party Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi informed newspersons here.
Among other leaders Murli Manohar Joshi will address a rally in Meerut, Mr Naqvi and Mr Kalraj Mishra in Rampur, Mr Pramod Mahajan in Assam and Mr Rajnath Singh in Madhya Pradesh.
Rallies, demonstrations, public meetings, dharnas would be organised during the week in all district and state headquarters all over the country to protest the “trading of the Congress and Communists with the security and self-respect of the nation,” Mr Naqvi said.
“The two parties would be asked to give an answer to the people of the country for the grave sin,” he said.
The party has already demanded a probe by a judicial commission to unravel the truth. Top party leaders, including Mr Vajpayee, Mr Advani and Mr Jaswant Singh, will also write a joint letter to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam seeking his intervention for ordering the probe.
The launch of the agitation will coincide with birth anniversary of Jan Sangh founder Deen Dayal Upadhyay and will culminate on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.
The party would also kick off its campaign for upcoming panchayat and assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh by organising a ‘Mahapanchayat’ at Rampur to protest against the alleged failure of the Mulayam Singh government in maintaining law and order in the state.
