By IANS,
New Delhi : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Members of Parliament, led by party leader L.K. Advani, will meet President Pratibha Patil Friday to lodge their protest against the “misuse of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)” by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
The party’s deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha S.S. Ahluwalia Thursday said here that the party MPs will meet the president to “protest against misuse of CBI”. He charged the CBI with different yardsticks for leaders belonging to the ruling alliance, those from the opposition, and those who could be “soft targets” for the government.
He said the CBI had arrested a senior Gujarat police officer in an encounter case days before the golden jubilee celebration of the state and despite the alert about terror threat. “The officer was not running away,” he said.
Earlier in the day, BJP MPs staged a sit-in in the Parliament House premises against alleged misuse of CBI. Senior leaders of the BJP, including Advani, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her counterpart in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley were joined by some of their allies in National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue on the Parliament House premises.
The BJP has demanded a discussion on the issue in parliament. The ongoing parliament session will conclude Friday.