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Indian PM denies Wikileaks claims about cash-for-votes scandal
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stumbleupon Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday denied allegations made by website Wikileaks that the Congress-led coalition government purchased some Members of Parliament (MPs) for a trust vote in 2008.The prime minister said that neither he had "authorized anybody " to purchase votes of some MPs nor was he involved in any such " transactions," a day after the country's Opposition parties demanded his resignation over the Wikileaks claims.
"I have no knowledge of any such purchases and I am absolutely categorical, I have not authorized anyone to purchase any votes. I am not aware of any acts of purchase of votes," Singh said. "I am absolutely certain in asserting that I am not at all, I think, involved in any of these transactions."
Indian opposition parties from both right and left Thursday demanded the ruling United Progressive Alliance government's immediate resignation over the Wikileaks exposure that the Congress had paid money to buy some MPs ahead of a vote of confidence over Indian-U.S. nuclear deal in 2008.
The WikiLeaks cable, published by The Hindu newspaper and allegedly coming from a U.S. diplomat in India dated 2008, suggested that ahead of a vote of confidence for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Indian-U.S. nuclear deal, the Congress party had bought the votes of Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal party.
The cable claimed that U.S. diplomats were told by an aide of Congress senior official Satish Sharma that four MPs from Ajit Singh's party were paid 100 million rupees (2 million U.S. dollars) each by Congress to ensure that they voted for the nuclear deal in Parliament on July 22, 2008.
The Manmohan Singh government narrowly won the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha with 275 MPs voting in favor of the UPA and 256 against it.
Source: Xinhua
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