New Delhi: A seven-member Parliamentary committee probing the cash-for-votes scam has given a clean chit to Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Reoti Raman Singh and Ahmad Patel.
The committee was looking into allegations that a huge amount of cash changed hands to save the Government before and during the trust vote on July 22 this year.
The committee debated if Amar Singh's role in the scam should also be investigated. It had become a point of serious political difference between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party.
The majority opinion was that Amar Singh became a Rajya Sabha MP and couldn't be summoned by a committee of the other House, the Lok Sabha.
Two Opposition MPs--V K Malhotra of BJP and Mohd Saleem of CPI(M)--have given dissenting notes on the 466-page report of the Committee headed by Congress MP Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo saying they distanced themselves from it.
Three BJP MPs had shocked the Lok Sabha on July 22 when they opened a bag and flashed wads of currency notes claiming they were offered Rs 3 crore in bribe by Amar Singh to vote or abstain in favour of the government.
The BJP MPs were Ashok Argal, Fagan Singh Kulasthe and Mahavir Bagora.
"There is no direct evidence against Amar Singh. The Committee are inclined to discount the video clip of the car entering or coming out of Amar Singh's house because in the first place the video clipping does not not show the face of persons (claimed to be Shri Argal and Kulasthe) seated in the rear seat," the Committee said.
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