Thursday, January 12 2006 16:00 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Chennai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is yet to take a decision on the question of the Supreme Court issuing a notice to Lok Sabha speaker Somanath Chatterjee in the cases filed by the expelled MPs in the cash for query scam, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said here today (Jan 12,2006).

"We are having inner party discussions. We will make our stand known at the meeting convened by the Speaker on the issue", he told reporters.

The party, he said, was against any confrontation between the four pillars of democracy, he said adding that Parliament was supreme in the domain of law making and the courts, in giving judicial interpretations.

Describing telephone tapping as 'indecent', he demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into all complaints.

This action infringed the privacy of an individual, a fundamental right. It should not be resorted to unless it was to safeguard the security of the nation, the BJP leader said.

He demanded an amendment to the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, which was enacted when the country's telephone system was a Government monopoly.

"Now that many companies have come into the telephone industry, it is high time the act is amended," he said.