Somnath to 'bribed' MPs: Lodge complaint

BUYING VOTES? The three MPs had claimed that the Samajwadi Party was offering them money for abstentions.

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New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee has asked the three BJP MPs who flashed wads of cash in Parliament to make a written complaint if they were hoping for any action.

Somnath has written a letter to the MPs asking them to lodge a formal written complaint on the issue.

The three MPs - MP from Morena, Ashok Argal; MP from Mandla, Faggan Singh Kulaste and MP from Salumber in Rajasthan Mahavir Bhagora - had heaped currency notes before the Deputy Speaker during Tuesday's trust vote.

They alleged that they were approached by a Samajwadi Party MP.

Placing a bag on the table of the Secretary General in front of the Speaker's podium, the three MPs fished had out 10 bundles of currency notes of Rs 1,000 denomination. Shouting "shame, shame" and alleging horse trading by the Samajwadi Party, the members took turns to flash the money, prompting Deputy Speaker Charanjit Atwal to adjourn the House.

When the House reconvened, L K Advani had got up to say that that three of his MP's were offered Rs 3 crore for abstentions in favour of the UPA Government.

They had claimed that this was the first instalment of a promised bribe.