The NDA today staged a protest in Parliament complex demanding Prime Minister's resignation over the cash-for-vote scam after BJP leader L K Advani was not allowed to speak in Lok Sabha on the alleged ''injustice'' meted out to two former party MPs arrested in the case.
Senior BJP leaders, including Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, along with those of NDA partners gathered around the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Parliament complex and raised slogans against the Government on the cash-for-vote scam.
Demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the leaders including Jaswant Singh, Rajnath Singh and JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav accused the Congress-led UPA government of being "corrupt".
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj alleged that the cash-for-vote case was the biggest scam of the present government.
She claimed that those who "exposed the UPA for having secured the trust vote after buying votes of MPs" were still sitting in power, but those who exposed their "corrupt deeds" were put in jail.
"While those who exposed this government by showing the notes are today behind bars, the person whose government was saved is still the Prime Minister," she told reporters outside Parliament.
Swaraj said BJP wanted to raise the matter of arrest of two of its former MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagore yesterday, but because of the bomb blast it could not do so.
"However, when our senior leader L K Advani gave a notice for suspension of Question Hour today, he was not allowed to speak. When he started speaking in the din, directions were given that nothing would go on record and his mike was shut."
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