Cash-for-vote scam report: BJP to attach dissent note
The BJP in its dissenting note is likely to rivet its attention on the close ties of Sanjeev Saxena with Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh to challenge the clean chit handed out to the latter.
By ET Bureau |
NEW DELHI: The BJP in its dissenting note, which will be attached to the final report of the parliamentary panel probing the cash-for-votes scam, is likely to rivet its attention on the close ties of Sanjeev Saxena with Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh to challenge the clean chit handed out to the latter.
Two days after the draft report was circulated among the seven members of the parliamentary panel, the BJP dismissed its findings as ���a crude cover-up���.
The BJP���s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Mr Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who is a member of parliamentary committee, is expected to submit his dissenting note during its final meeting on October 17.
Members belonging to the Opposition benches, which include, besides Mr Malhotra, Mr Mohd Salim (CPM) and Mr Rajesh Verma (BSP), found it strange that the panel, on the one hand, had given a clean chit to Mr Amar Singh on the ground that there was no ���clinching evidence��� to link him to the bribe paid to the three BJP MPs, but had, at the same time, found grave inconsistencies in Saxena���s testimony and recommended further inquiry into his role.
The committee, in fact, is also said to have favoured conducting a narco-test on the Samajwadi Party leader���s former secretary to ascertain his statements.
The parliamentary panel, BJP leaders contend, had simply refused to take cognisance of the documentary evidence presented to it to prove Saxena���s close ties with Mr Amar Singh.
The three BJP MPs���Mr Ashok Argal, Mr Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mr Mahavir Bhagora��� had submitted before the committee three types of documentary evidence, including a college admission form filled up by Saxena���s son, which had him describing his father as secretary to Mr Amar Singh and had even listed the latter���s official 27, Lodi Estate, residence as his official address.
SMSs sent by Saxena till as late as July 20 to mediapersons inviting them for the Samajwadi Party leader���s press conference and the telephonic records of Saxena���s movements on the day the bribe was paid to the three BJP MPs.
Two days after the draft report was circulated among the seven members of the parliamentary panel, the BJP dismissed its findings as ���a crude cover-up���.
The BJP���s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Mr Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who is a member of parliamentary committee, is expected to submit his dissenting note during its final meeting on October 17.
Members belonging to the Opposition benches, which include, besides Mr Malhotra, Mr Mohd Salim (CPM) and Mr Rajesh Verma (BSP), found it strange that the panel, on the one hand, had given a clean chit to Mr Amar Singh on the ground that there was no ���clinching evidence��� to link him to the bribe paid to the three BJP MPs, but had, at the same time, found grave inconsistencies in Saxena���s testimony and recommended further inquiry into his role.
The committee, in fact, is also said to have favoured conducting a narco-test on the Samajwadi Party leader���s former secretary to ascertain his statements.
The parliamentary panel, BJP leaders contend, had simply refused to take cognisance of the documentary evidence presented to it to prove Saxena���s close ties with Mr Amar Singh.
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The three BJP MPs���Mr Ashok Argal, Mr Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mr Mahavir Bhagora��� had submitted before the committee three types of documentary evidence, including a college admission form filled up by Saxena���s son, which had him describing his father as secretary to Mr Amar Singh and had even listed the latter���s official 27, Lodi Estate, residence as his official address.
SMSs sent by Saxena till as late as July 20 to mediapersons inviting them for the Samajwadi Party leader���s press conference and the telephonic records of Saxena���s movements on the day the bribe was paid to the three BJP MPs.
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