Tags : bjp politics, trust motion, india politcs
Posted: Tuesday , Jul 29, 2008 at 0048 hrs IST NEW DELHI, JULY 28:
The onus for telecasting the CDs containing footage of the supposed cash-for-vote scam now lies with news channel CNN-IBN following an exchange of letters between Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani.
According to senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, the Speaker, while leaving the decision of making the CDs public to the House committee constituted to look in to the scam, told Advani that the channel has claimed that it has the right to telecast the CDs whenever it wants. Swaraj said the Speaker has also said in the letter that the channel has copies of the CDs.
The channel, after refraining from telecasting the CDs, had voluntarily handed them over to the Lok Sabha secretariat. The CDs are among the evidence awaiting an examination by the V Kishore Chandra Deo committee, which is looking into the scam.
Advani had on Sunday written to the Speaker demanding that the CDs be made public without any delay to enable people to come to a well-informed and fair conclusion after having watched the display of currency notes by three BJP MPs in the House. “People’s right to information cannot be circumscribed in any manner,” he had said in his letter.
Along side, Advani maintained that the “investigation material pertaining to the whistle-blowing operation by our three MPs cannot be treated as the private property of the channel”. “Hence, we urge you to ask the channel to share the entire unedited tape with the three MPs concerned immediately,” said Advani.
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