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Some shell out Rs 100 crore for a RS seat, Cong MP says
JIND/CHANDIGARH: Senior Congress leader Chaudhary Birender Singh has kicked up a controversy with his claim that there are people who shell out up to Rs 100 crore to get a Rajya Sabha seat.
As the BJP latched on to his remarks to accuse Congress of being in the habit of "cutting out deals" and having brought politics in the country to such a "low level", Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, went into damage control on Monday claiming that what appeared in media was an "entirely wrong version" of what he had said.
Addressing a rally in Jind on Sunday, the Congress leader had said, "Once someone told me that he had a budget of Rs 100 crore to become a Rajya Sabha MP. But when he totalled the expenditure later, he found it was Rs 80 crore and he had ended up saving Rs 20 crore."
"Now you think, a man who succeeds taking the membership of Rajya Sabha by spending 80 crore or 100 crore rupees, what will they think about the poor," he had added.
Some shell out Rs 100 crore for a RS seat, Cong MP says
JIND/CHANDIGARH: Senior Congress leader Chaudhary Birender Singh has kicked up a controversy with his claim that there are people who shell out up to Rs 100 crore to get a Rajya Sabha seat.
As the BJP latched on to his remarks to accuse Congress of being in the habit of "cutting out deals" and having brought politics in the country to such a "low level", Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, went into damage control on Monday claiming that what appeared in media was an "entirely wrong version" of what he had said.
Addressing a rally in Jind on Sunday, the Congress leader had said, "Once someone told me that he had a budget of Rs 100 crore to become a Rajya Sabha MP. But when he totalled the expenditure later, he found it was Rs 80 crore and he had ended up saving Rs 20 crore."
"Now you think, a man who succeeds taking the membership of Rajya Sabha by spending 80 crore or 100 crore rupees, what will they think about the poor," he had added.
