Atal Bihari Vajpayee

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party is to launch a nationwide agitation against the Congress and some Left parties for allegedly receiving funds from the KGB, intelligence agency of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

The former Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the former BJP president, Venkaiah Naidu, would launch a weeklong campaign here on Sunday and party president L.K. Advani would address a rally at Somnath in Gujarat, party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told presspersons reporters on Saturday.

Mr. Naqvi said the Congress and the Left were answerable to the people for their "unholy" alliance with the KGB. This had been revealed in the book The Mitrokhin Archives — II: The KGB and the World. The BJP had sought a judicial probe into the episode.

Senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi would lead the agitation in Meerut, Pramod Mahajan in Assam and Rajnath Singh in Madhya Pradesh.

The campaign, comprising demonstrations and rallies at all State capitals and district headquarters, would end on Gandhi Jayanti. "The people will seek an answer from the leaders of the two parties. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, too, are answerable,'' Mr. Naqvi said.

Mahapanchayat

The BJP would organise a `mahapanchayat' in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. It would coincide with an agitation against the State Government and mark the beginning of the Assembly and the panchayat election campaigns, he said.

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