New Delhi:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said that a delegation of senior leaders will meet President Pratibha Patil January 3 to register the party's protest against the Lokpal Bill fiasco in Parliament.
The party's core group, which met in Delhi a day after the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die without putting to vote the Bill for an anti-graft ombudsman, also decided to launch a week-long nationwide agitation against the Congress.
After the meeting, BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that a high-level party delegation will meet the President January 3 to register its protest against the "murder of democracy by the UPA government".
The delegation will be led by senior leader LK Advani and party president Nitin Gadkari.
He said the party will also launch a "save democracy, remove Congress" campaign throughout the country from January 3 to 10.
Prasad alleged the government did not have majority in the Lok Sabha during the voting on the Lokpal bill and it "ran away" from voting in the Rajya Sabha.
He said silent protest marches by BJP members wearing black bands will also be held to protest against "the shameless manner in which the government conducted itself on the Lokpal Bill".
Party leaders said that the government's handling of the Lokpal Bill will figure in speeches of party leaders in poll-bound states.