WikiLeaks shakes the Congress govt.

News pulse, Politics | admin | March 17, 2011 at 4:35 am

WikiLeaks is shaking the ruling congress govt, The 125 years old party is a scamgress and courrpted party was the discussion making rounds.

A set of India-related diplomatic cables on the Indo-US nuclear deal released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, claims that an aide of Congress leader Satish Sharma had told a US diplomat that the party had paid crores to several lawmakers to ensure that they voted for the deal in Parliament.

In a cable dated July 17, 2008 sent to the US State Department, Charge d”Affaires Steven White wrote about a visit the embassy’’s political counsellor paid to Rajya Sabha MP Satish Sharma.

Sharma, according to WikiLeaks, told the US diplomat that he and others in the Congress were working hard to ensure that the government would win the confidence vote on July 22, 2008.

According to White, Sharma’’s political aide Nachiketa Kapur mentioned to an embassy staff member in an aside on July 16 that the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) had been paid Rs 10 crore to each of its four MPs.

Kapur mentioned that money was not an issue at all, but the crucial thing was to ensure that those who took the money would vote for the government.

Kapur showed the embassy employee two chests containing cash and said that around Rs. 50-60 crore was lying around the house for use as pay-offs

Sharma also revealed to him that the top Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself were in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal and had conveyed this message clearly to the party.

“Efforts were also on to try and get the Shiv Sena to abstain.

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