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| Nothing wrong in planning sting, |
| Cash-for-Votes: Nothing wrong in planning sting, says Sushma
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| INDIA
, 26-March-2011
2:57:49 AM |
| In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Sushma Swaraj has said that if the BJP did plan a sting to prove that the Congress was willing to buy MPs to survive a trust vote in 2008, "there's nothing wrong with that." However, she said that it is incorrect that her party's leaders or members are guilty of entrapment, and that the party is open to an investigation of its role in what's known as the "cash-for-votes" controversy. Ms Swaraj told NDTV's Barkha Dutt today that she stands by her demand for a CBI inquiry into the cash-for-votes allegation. Her own party's role, she said, can and should be scrutinized too because "we know the truth will come out even if they inquire that."
In July 2008, hours ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trust vote, three BJP MPs arrived in Parliament waving notes that they said amounted to three crores. This, they allege, was money that the Congress had offered to them via middlemen to vote in favour of the government.
The matter had disappeared from the political landscape till a WikiLeaks cable leaked last week kissed it back to life. The BJP was galvanized into action, and demanded that the Prime Minister explain a scam of which he was "the main beneficiary."
The government's defence lies in a parliamentary committee which investigated the cash-for-votes allegations. The government claims that the committee concluded there was no evidence of bribery. The BJP, on the other hand, points out that two members of that committee wanted further investigations. And the three MPs who were allegedly offered the three crores for their votes say that no serious attempt has been made by the police or other investigating agencies to question them
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