New Delhi: In a frontal attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha for moving a no- confidence motion against National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on August 18 said the Opposition had failed to name its leader who could replace Atal Behari Vajpayee as Prime Minister.

Let there be a provision under which the name of the leader would be made known before such a motion was moved in the House, Advani said recalling the failure of the Opposition to provide an alternative government in 1998 when the Vajpayee Ministry was defeated by a single vote.

If that was so, the motion could not have been brought by the Opposition before the House, he said while participating in the debate on the motion.

He was, however, happy that the motion would give an opportunity to Vajpayee to spell out achievements of the government during the last five years.

PTI