CHANDIGARH (PTI): India’s strongest opposition party, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that the parliamentary committee probing the country’s multibillion scam has no Legal sanction and so a high powered committee, under the commissions of enquiry Act, must be set up 10 probes the Rs 50 billion scandal.
Krishan Lal Sharma, general secretary of the party told reporters here on July 16 that the Joint Parliamentary Committees GPC) was only a statutory body while the Proposed committees would have legal sanction.
He however, immediately added that his party had full faith in the 30 lawmakers that are members of the committee.
Sharma, whose party wants abrogation of art 370 that gives special status to Kashmir, said the government should convene an all-party meeting at the earliest to chalk out a national policy on Kashmir. The government must delink terrorism from politics and should not hold any negotiations. With militant elements in the valley, he added.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 23, 1993
