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23 July 2008 Lucknow (PTI): The BSP on Wednesday
rebutted allegations of the Samajwadi Party which claimed that one of
its party MPs was offered Rs 30 crores to vote against the UPA in its
trial of strength in the Lok Sabha on July 22.
Terming SP General Secretary Amar
Singh's charges that the BSP had offered the amount to the MP as
baseless and a bundle of lies, Cabinet Minister Swami Prasad Maurya
said the BSP did not believe in horse-trading.
"Singh is infamous for horse-trading.
BSP is a party of principle and follow the ideology of Dr B R Ambedkar
and Kanshiram," Maurya told reporters here.
He said the SP MP in question, Akshay
Pratap Singh alias Gopalji, had "criminal background" would have to
face consequences of his "misdeeds".
Asked whether state government would
order a probe into Amar Singh's allegations, Maurya said everyone knew
about the SP general secretary and his "reality" but did not elaborate.
Maurya further criticised the last
Samajwadi Party government saying that it had catapulted itself to
power by engineering defections from the ranks of BSP MLAs. Now, the SP
had lost credibility among the people, he claimed.
Asked about PWD Minister Nasimuddin
Siddiqui's meeting with jailed BSP MP Umakant Yadav, who was expelled
from the party in Farukhabad yesterday, Maurya said that Siddiqui met
him as he was still a party MP.
Maurya, however, avoided media queries
about reports on providing "B class facilities" to jailed party MLA
Anand Sen Yadav, who is the son of party MP Mitrasen Yadav.
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