Another sting shows MPs misappropriating MPLADs funds
Press Trust of India Posted online: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 0452 hours IST Updated: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 0939 hours IST
New Delhi, December 20: Close on the heels of a sting operation showing 11 MPs accepting money to ask questions, another TV channel today came out with yet another embarrassing expose highlighting corruption among MPs in selecting the projects for Local Area Development Scheme.
'Operation Chakravyuh' by Star News-Detective Intelligence Guild (DIG) showed a former Congress Goa Chief Minister and Lok Sabha member Churchil Alemao, former Union Minister and BJP MP Fagan Singh Kulaste and one Samajwadi Party MP and another supported by it involved in corruption in allotting work for the MPLAD (Member of Parliament Local Area Development) Scheme.
The Star News released the transcripts and event descriptions of the meeting with MPs.
It said that one Samajwadi Party MP Toofani Saroj was honest and refused to disscuss or accept any commission.
Alemao, a Congress MP from South Goa, who discusses commisson in two meetings, is shown in the third meeting asking the DIG reporters to open a bag full of money as commission for a project to popularise Konkani language. The former Chief Minister demands an advance of Rs. Two lakh, but on suspicion threatens to check the bags of the reporters at which the sting team scrambled out.
The sting operation also shows Yuvraj Siingh, Personal Secretary of Fagan Singh Kulaste, a former Union Minister, taking money on behalf of BJP MP Chandra Pratap Singh, who was also exposed in the cash-on-camera 'Operation Duryodhan' last week.
Yuvraj Singh was again shown accepting money for Kulaste, a Lok Sabha member, who signs the recommendation letter for a particular scheme.
Others shown in the sting operation are Ramswaroop Koli (BJP), Paras Nath Yadav (SP), Sakshi Maharaj (Rashtriya Kranti Dal supported by SP), and Isan Singh (BSP).
New Delhi, December 20: Close on the heels of a sting operation showing 11 MPs accepting money to ask questions, another TV channel today came out with yet another embarrassing expose highlighting corruption among MPs in selecting the projects for Local Area Development Scheme.
