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| Par panel on cash-for-vote scam to submit its report tomorrow | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, DEC 10 (PTI)
The Enquiry Committee that went into the alleged cash-for-vote scam during the July 22 trust vote would be presenting its report to Lok Sabha tomorrow.
The Committee was constituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee after three BJP MPs -- Ashok Argal, Fagan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora -- displayed wads of currency notes in the House alleging that huge sums were offered to them to save the Manmohan Singh government.
The panel headed by senior Congress MP V Kishore Chandra Deo will place the report on the table of the House tomorrow, sources said.
In its report, the Committee is understood to have suggested that the money trail could be probed by an investigating agency like CBI or the Income Tax department.
The voluminous report which will comprise evidence given by witnesses and verbatim transcriptions of sittings also carry the "dissent" notes by BJP's V K Malhotra, Mohd Salim (CPI-M) and Ramgopal Yadav (SP).
The three BJP MPs earlier alleged that Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and Congress leader Ahmed Patel were behind the attempt to lure them to the ruling side. Singh and Patel have, however, denied the charges.
While Argal and Kulaste have appeared before the panel, the third BJP MP Mahavir Bhagora could not appear as he was suffering from heart ailment.
Samajwadi Party MP Reoti Raman Singh, BJP activist Sudheendra Kulkarni, Amar Singh's alleged aide Sanjeev Saxena and Suhail Hindustani, who was seen in the CD released by CNN-IBN TV news channel which conducted the sting operation, and representatives of the channel have also deposed before the Committee.
The three BJP MPs are also being accused of breach of privilege of the Lok Sabha. Congress MP Madhusudan Mistry and Samajwadi Party MP Mohan Singh have complained to the Speaker that the act of the three BJP MPs was amounted to contempt of the House and breach of its privilege. |
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