New Delhi, July 14: Wary of a backlash in the coming assembly polls, Delhi BJP continued to be at loggerheads with the Vajpayee government over the controversial Conditional Access System (CAS) demanding that it not be implemented in the capital till the forthcoming assembly polls. Party unit chief Madan Lal Khurana approached Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and BJP chief M Venkaiah Naidu to demand amendment in Friday's ordinance on CAS so that it is first tested in other three metros and implemented in Delhi only if successful there.
Opposition Congress has openly declared that it will use the CAS issue like the onion one in 1998 to take political mileage, he said as having told Vajpayee.
He said Vajpayee was "convinced" with his argument and had asked Law Minister Arun Jaitley to find "a way out".
"Though I am not opposed to CAS, there is a perception among people that it will be expensive for consumers. This can be used by Congress to take political advantage," Khurana said. Bureau Report