PATNA, August 18: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Laloo Prasad Yadav today accused the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister of having ``prompted'' the Maharashtra Government to reject the Srikrishna commission report and demanded immediate arrest of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and dismissal of the Manohar Joshi Ministry. `The commission's report was rejected by the Maharashtra Government at the behest of Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K Advani,'' Yadav alleged at a press conference. ``The way BJP's top leadership defended the rejection bears testimony to it''. He said leaders of secular parties who met in New Delhi on August 16 were of the view that the rejection of the report ``will erode people's faith in judicial commissions... Something nobody would like.''Demanding initiation of legal proceedings against all those indicted by the commission which probed Mumbai riots of 1992-93, Yadav said the RLM would ``take the battle against cover-up attempts by BJP-Shiv Sena to its logical end.''
He alsodemanded constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe charges of bribe-taking levelled by AIADMK leader J Jayalalitha against ``people close to Prime Minister'' in the recent bureaucratic reshuffle.
``The charges levelled by the AIADMK leader are extremely serious in nature and warrant an impartial and indepth inquiry which JPC alone can conduct,'' Yadav said.
Referring to the Sitamarhi incident, Yadav demanded expulsion of Railway Minister Nitish Kumar from the Union Cabinet charging him with having broken the law by ``defying prohibitory orders'' there.
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