NEW DELHI: Ending weeks of suspense after the cash-for-votes scandal rocked Lok Sabha during the July 22 trust vote, the private TV channel which had recorded the "sting" telecast on Monday the tapes showing three BJP MPs receiving Rs 1 crore from a person alleged to be associated with Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh.
Some 19 days after the final chapter of the sting was recorded, CNN-IBN telecast the tapes while claiming that it was not arriving at any conclusion over who was the guilty party in the reported attempt to bribe the BJP MPs — Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahaveer Bhagora — to vote for the Manmohan Singh government.
In his response to the tapes, Amar Singh said he had not met the BJP MPs. BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley gave many arguments in support of his claim that Sanjiv Saxena, the man who delivered cash to the MPs was an aide of Amar Singh.
The cash-for-votes tapes telecast by CNN-IBN do not show any of the MPs meeting SP leader Amar Singh, but raise a plethora of questions: about the delay in telecast; links between the SP leader and a certain Sanjiv Saxena, who delivered Rs 1 crore in cash; the "offer" of SP MP Reoti Raman Singh to act as an intermediary; and the video footage of a car with two BJP MPs entering the residence of Amar Singh.
Source & Details : Times Of India
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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