By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : A seven member committee of the Lok Sabha MPs was constituted to go into the allegations of bribery levelled by three BJP MPs for securing their support in the confidence vote.
The committee to be headed by senior Congress member V Kishore Chandra Deo was set up on Saturday by Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who was petitioned on Friday by the three BJP MPs — Ashok Argal, Fagan Singh Kulaste and Mahesh Bhagora — seeking an inquiry into their charge.
In their petition seeking an inquiry into the charge that attempt was made to bribe them to get their support in the trust vote on July 22, the three MPs were believed to have named S P General Secretary Amar Singh and Ahmed Patil, Political Secretary to Congress President. Both had denied the charge.
Other members of the committee are : V K Malhotra (BJP), Mohd Saleem (CPI-M), Ram Gopal Yadav (SP), Devendra Prasad Yadav (RJD), Rajesh Verma (BSP) and C Kuppusamy (DMK).
The committee has been asked to give its report on August 11, when the House will commence its Monsoon session, Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Achary said.
On July 22, the three BJP MPs shocked the Lok Sabha when they opened a leather bag and flashed bundles of currency notes claiming that they were given Rs one crore as advance in return for their support. ( One Crore: ten nillion)