Saturday, September 24 2005 20:18 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Seeking to put behind internal squabbles and play its role of opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch week-long agitation over alleged KGB funding of Congress and Communist Party of India (CPI) from tomorrow (Sept 25, 2005) with its top leaders, including Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani leading the nationwide campaign.

Under the slogan of 'Congress-Communist jawab do', the BJP will hold public rallies, demonstrations and sit-ins across the country to press the demand for a thorough probe into allegations that Congress and CPI used to receive funds from erstwhile Soviet intelligence agency KGB.

While Vajpayee and senior leaders Venkaiah Naidu and Arun Jaitley would address a programme in the capital tomorrow, Advani will participate in a programme at Somnath, where he kicked off his historic Rath Yatra in 1989, party Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters here.

Among other leaders Murli Manohar Joshi will address a rally in Meerut, Naqvi and Kalraj Mishra in Rampur, Pramod Mahajan in Assam and Rajnath Singh in Madhya Pradesh.

Rallies, demonstrations, public meetings, dharnas would be organised during the week in all district and state headquarters all over the country to protest the 'trading of the Congress and Communists with the security and self-respect of the nation,' Naqvi said.

"The two parties would be asked to give an answer to the people of the country for the grave sin," he said.

The party has demanded a probe by a judicial commission to unravel the truth. Top party leaders, including Vajpayee, Advani and Jaswant Singh will also write a joint letter to President A P J Abdul Kalam seeking his intervention for ordering the probe.

The launch of the agitation will coincide with birth anniversary of Jan Sangh founder Deen Dayal Upadhyay and will culminate on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.

The party would also kick off its campaign for upcoming panchayat and assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh by organising a 'Mahapanchayat' at Rampur to protest against the alleged failure of the Mulayam Singh Government in maintaining law and order in the state.