Wednesday, March 8 2006 18:00 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Lambasting BJP for disrupting Parliament proceedings on the Varanasi terror attack, CPI(M) today(Mar 8,2006) said the main opposition party would not be able to revive its 'sagging' image by taking out another 'yatra' and the people would rebuff it.

"By disrupting proceedings of the House, it has supplemented the act of the terrorists who want disruption.

The most effective response to terror strikes should be to restore normalcy and order as we did when such attacks took place when they were in power," party leaders Nilotpal Basu, Mohd Salim and Rupchand Pal told reporters here.

Reacting to Leader of Opposition L K Advani's plan to start another nationwide yatra, Basu said "BJP cannot revive its sagging political image by re-enacting another yatra. The people are wiser after having suffered at their hands when they were in office. They have become irrelevant in Parliament as Opposition. The people will rebuff them".

"It is most reprehensible act to link a terrorist attack with any religious community as BJP is doing. Advani is speaking of appeasement at this juncture, thereby attributing things to a community," he said.

Salim said the Godhra train blaze incident occurred a day before the budget was to be presented by the NDA Government.

But there was no disruption then.

"When Parliament was to have discussed the budget which affects the state of the economy and the livelihood of commonpeople, the BJP disrupts proceedings," he said.