Wikileaks disclosures: BJP demands UPA government's resignation

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday demanded the 'immediate' resignation of the Manmohan Singh government in the wake of the revelations in leaked US diplomatic cables overly payoffs had been made to MPs to ensure majority in conviction vote in 2008.

The issue was raised in both properties of parliament. The furore more than the issue saw both houses being adjourned till 12 noon.

'It is conclusively clear so such government survived on the basis of a political sin,' said BJP's Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley at the embark on of the session.

'The municipal which survived on the strength of these a political or moral sin has no authority. We demand that this government must resign immediately,' Jaitley said.

The Wikileaks diplomatic cables published by The Hindu newspaper quoted the political aide of Congress leader Satish Sharma as stating that a fund of Rs.50 crore had been formed to pay MPs for the confidence vote.

A US embassy official was apparently shown amid two chests of money in the political aide's house, kept for the payoffs.

In the Lok Sabha, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj claimed the information in the cables was a big monstrosity on Indian democracy.

'There is no higher shamelessness as opposed to this...that folks were showing war chests to outsiders,' she said, inserting the current the federal has lost the moral authority to be in power.

In both structures of parliament, there was uproar when opposition leaders tried to speak, with Congress members objecting and becoming up on this feet.
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