Adopting a conciliatory tone, government today indicated its willingness to begin the Monsoon Session of Parliament with an Opposition BJP-sponsored discussion on ‘‘national/internal security’’ in wake of the Mumbai and the J-K terror attacks.

‘‘As concern has been expressed by various sections pertaining to 7/11 in J-K and Mumbai, it is only natural that Parliament wants to take cognizance (of the development). We are ready to hear the Opposition’s view and also put across our point,’’ Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said.

The main Opposition party, the BJP, is set to bring an adjournment motion on internal “national” security focusing primarily on the serial train blasts in Mumbai and the terror attack on tourists in J-K on July 7 this month.

That apart, Dasmunsi said the Prime Minister will make a statement in Parliament on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal ‘‘to remove all misconceptions in people’s mind’’.

He even said that the UPA government was ready for a debate on the issue in the Lok Sabha as desired by the members today at the meeting of the chief whips of all political parties. Both the Left and the BJP have been demanding that the ‘‘sense of Parliament’’ be taken on the Indo-US nuclear deal either in form of a resolution or a discussion in wake of its passage in the US Congress’s House Committee.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, however, today took at a dig at former Defence & External Affairs Minister and now Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh for his allusion to the presence of ‘‘US mole’’ in Narasimha Rao’s PMO in his recently published book.

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