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LS to discuss Ayodhya issue
on Wednesday: PTI

Emerging from an hour-long meeting, Speaker G M C Balayogi told reporters, "The House will take up the issue under Rule 184, modalities of which will be worked out by me."

The rule provides for voting on the motion.

However, in the Rajya Sabha, where the government is in a minority, there seems to be no agreement.

Parliament sources indicated that the Opposition-sponsored motion would seek dropping of Union ministers L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti and a discussion on it would begin after Question Hour in the Lok Sabha.

The Opposition is understood to have re-worded the motion, in the wake of the Speaker disallowing an earlier motion on the issue, holding it went against the principle of collective responsibility of the government to the House.

The Speaker had said that, to end the deadlock, he would not stand in the way of a discussion if the House agreed provided sub judice matters were not touched.

Parliament has been stalled for the a week with the Opposition demanding the resignation of the three ministers and subsequent remarks of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on construction of the Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.

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