New Delhi: The Opposition camp was deeply divided on Wednesday over the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the Punjab National Bank scam. While the Trinamul opposed the demand for a JPC, the Left parties pitched hard for it.
The Congress party which had last week said it would reach out to other parties on the JPC has been quiet since then.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had on Saturday said that Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjuna Kharge, Leaders of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, have been assigned the task by the party’s Steering Committee to speak to all other parties and arrive at a strategy on the PNB scam.
On Wednesday, sources in the Congress party, however, said that since only one effective session of Parliament was left before the government goes into election mode, there was no point in demanding a JPC probe.
On somewhat similar lines, the Trinamul on Wednesday said that it does not support the demand for a JPC as it would send any probe into the PNB scam into cold storage.
