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Bihar : NDA seeks Presidential intervention |
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About 125 Members of the dissolved Bihar Assembly met President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Friday, June 10, to protest against dissolution of the State Assembly. Their delegation was led by BJP president L.K. Advani and NDA convener George Fernandes. They appealed to the President to undo the damage caused to the Constitution by what they called the colossal fraud involved in dissolving the Assembly. They submitted a seven-page memorandum asking for restoration of democracy in Bihar.
During the meeting with the President, the delegation alleged that the Central Government had not given the correct picture when it sent its report to the President who was then in Moscow, recommending dissolution of the Bihar House.
“It is our obligation to point out to the President the colossal fraud on the Constitution”, said the BJP general secretary in charge of Bihar affairs, Arun Jaitley, after the delegation met the President The NDA leaders later claimed that as many as 126 members of the dissolved House - comprising the MLAs of the JDU, BJP, and the LJP and Independents - were paraded before the President, even as six others could not come, four of whom are in jail.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has asked the Centre to file an affidavit within two weeks on whether a bunch of petitions challenging the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly make out a prima facie case. The petitioners accused the UPA Government of subverting democratic norms at the behest of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to prevent JDU leader Nitish Kumar from staking claim to form the Government. When the vacation bench of the court took up the matter on June 10, the Centre argued that no case could be made out for entertaining the petition challenging the Assembly dissolution.
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