FRAME OF CASH FOR VOTE SCANDAL - 2008
The cash for vote scandal is once again a major scandal in the history of independent India which involved the then majority-holding parliamentary-party alliance of India headed by Sonia Gandhi and the United Progressive Alliance supposed to have bribed the member of Parliaments of the Bharathiya Janata Party so as to pull through a confidence vote which was held on 22 July 2008. The Marxist Community Party of India led Left Front withdrew its support to the then ruling Government, the Congress headed by Manmohan Singh in the Lok Sabha because they were wanting to proceed along with an Indo-US nuclear deal.
HISTORY OF THE SCANDAL
So when this was not accepted by the government they withdrew their support in the Lok Sabha and led to the confidence voting. But however the Marxist Communist Party of India CPI (M) expressed disapproval to the project of supply of the nuclear technology to India from the United States thereby consenting to United Nations inspections of its nuclear programs and the splitting of the civil and military aspects of those programs. CPI (M) was not for this deal mainly because they considered that this would cause the country to be looked down or inferior to the US. Apart from the CPI (M), the Bharatiya Janata Party also strictly condemned this based on various factors like that the inspections could delay or prevent development of the country's nuclear arms program. The confidence voting which was taken based on the above discussed issues was won by the government in the face of the predominantly left-wing and Hindu nationalist objections. It had been arguing that the nuclear infrastructure needed to be developed more rapidly because the existing electric generation facilities were incapable of meeting growing demand. CONFIDENCE VOTING WAS TOTALLY SHATTERED BY THE BHARATIYA JANATHA PARTY MP'S
The 2008 success of the government in the confidence voting was totally shattered by the Bharatiya Janata Party MPs, including Ashok Argal who pulled out bundles and bundles of cashes during the debate time in the parliament which is alleged to be bribed by the government so as to buy their support or to be restraint in their consumption. The Bharatiya Janata Party was strongly fighting for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for they came out with a number of allegations on the Prime Minister and also affirmed that there was a clear evidence of all the incidents and dealings proposedly recorded in a video. The leader of the Marxist Communist Party of India CPI (M) also stated that all the members of the Parliament were approached and induced by the Congress party in offering of bribe so as to vote in favor of them. But however all these allegations were completely denied by the Government.
DELHI POLICE FURTHER INVESTIGATED INTO THE EXACT HAPPENING OF THE CASE
Finally the speaker of the Lok Sabha Somnath Chatterjee, asked the New Delhi Police to further investigate into the exact happening of the case. After nearly a period of two weeks' time on August 2nd 2008, documentary evidence was produced by the Bharatiya Janata Party only to prove that Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahaveer Bhagora had been bribed. The investigatory committee which was set up by the parliament got evidences from the BJP including printed versions of video recordings and explanatory letters from two of the MPs. The BJP also indicated the faults of CNN-IBN, who had recorded the BJP MP's attempt to sting the government but had not broadcast it. Finally the recorded versions and happenings were published and broadcasted on television on 12th August, 2008 after the investigating committee pulled the CNN-IBN to its investigation and questionnaire. PRECONVINCED OPINION OF THE INVESTIGATORY PROCESS
Based on the grounds of legal opinion the company had refused to accept the calls for an earlier broadcast thinking that it is a preconvinced opinion of the investigatory process. This was more commonly referred as the Kishore Chandra Deo committee and it actually began on 30th July, 2008. But however by December 2008 the committee submitted a report stating that they found no proof of corruption of offering of bribe in the case of Rajya Sabha members Amar Singh and Ahmad Patel. They had been accused of offering the bribes, and Singh was a prominent member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) which had begun to support the government at the time when the Left Front moved to oppose it. The Kishore Chandra Deo committee insisted on more detailed probing into the activities of Sanjeev Saxena, Sohail Hindustani and Sudheendra Kulkarni. Saxena was a wing man to Amar Singh, Kulkarni had a similar role for the BJP leader, L. K. Advani and Hindustani was a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha activist (although some early reports say that he was a driver).CONCLUSION SUBMITTED BY THE REPORT

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