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Stormy beginning likely in Indian budget session

PALLAB BHATTACHARYA, New Delhi
The budget session of Indian parliament beginning today is likely to be off to a stormy start with the government locked in a tussle with the main opposition BJP on the sacking of governors in four states and presence of "tainted" ministers in the federal ministry.
The general budget will be presented by Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram on July 8, two days after presentation of railway budget.
The BJP-led opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to boycott the presentation of railway budget by the cabinet minister concerned and Bihar strongman Lalu Prasad Yadav, protesting his inclusion, as well as that of three of his party colleagues, in the ministry because of pending court cases against him.
A final decision on this would be taken shortly before the parliament session begins, BJP sources said adding the opposition will also firm up its strategy today on the general budget presentation.
As per indications, the NDA might stage a walkout when Lalu Yadav presents the railway budget but return to take part in the debate on it in order to use the opportunity to pin him down on his facing charges in fodder scam, for which he had to quit Bihar chief minister's post and install his wife Rabri Devi in his place, and a spate of train rob-
beries in his home state in last one month.
Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's defence of inclusion of Yadav and some other ministers who are facing court cases in connection with criminal incidents, the NDA is likely to keep up the heat on the government on the issue.
The issue of "tainted" ministers saw much of the four-day first session of the new Lok Sabha, constituted after the April-May general elections gave stunning victory to Congress and its allies, being disrupted by strong protests from NDA pressing for removal of Lalu Yadav and other ministers facing court cases.
With the government and the opposition refusing to budge from their stands on the issue of "tainted" ministers, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee called a meeting of NDA leaders but failed to make headway.
Chatterjee also met leaders of ruling Congress and its allies over dinner on Saturday and asked them to get in touch with the opposition parties to seek their cooperation in ensuring smooth proceedings of parliament during the budget session.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told media persons Saturday that he had spoken to the Leader of the Opposition LK Advani to seek cooperation for disruption-free parliamentary proceedings.
What deepened the stand-off
between the government and the opposition was the dismissal of governors with RSS-BJP background of four states Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Haryana by the Congress-led government. These governors were appointed during the reign of BJP-led NDA government.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil acknowledged that the four governors, who are by and large titular heads, were removed because of their ideology. An enraged BJP cried foul saying ideology cannot be the ground for removal of the four governors and the dismissal was "gross violation of the Constitution."
Reflecting the aggressive posture of BJP on the issue of removal of the governors, former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Saturday said it was no crime to be associated with RSS and if this is a crime his partymen will commit it again and again.
The BJP wanted the governors appointed during its rule to stay on despite a change of guard in New Delhi and had even met President A P J Abdul Kalam and the prime minister to demand that they be not made to quit.
Ever since independence, senior ruling party politicians, who are almost at the fag-end of their career, have in most cases been appointed governors in states and change of governors has been a convention with every change of federal government.