Congress leader Choudhary Birender Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP
stirs a debate with his controversial rather shameful claim that a Rajya Sabha
seat can be got for Rs 100 crore.
The controversy started when the Rajya Sabha MP from
Hariyana, while addressing a rally in Jind , said that once someone had told
him that while he had a budget of Rs 100 crore for a Rajya Sabha membership, but actually ended up paying only 80 crore and hence made a saving of 20 crore. We presume this
may not be the same in 2014 with steep rise in inflation, the saving may be
gone.
The opposition embarked on to this controversial comment and the BJP
accused the UPA government as “deal strikers” and bringing the dirty politic in
Indian democracy. The whole of last UPA
Govt. indulged in major corruptions scams, which were propagated by their members with
such evil money minded ideology.
Of course the MP
was forced to change his version as the practice now a days prevalent and he indulged
in damage control and accused the media of giving an "entirely wrong
version" to the public of what he had said.
The MP gladly accepted that there is a new trend of the
MP’s in the both houses that more wealthy politicians are entering the houses with
a vision of buying anything and everything at a cost and of course they can
afford to pay for that. He confirmed to
a 2009 Lok Sabha election report which stated that there were 360 crorepati and 20 arabpati winning
candidates .