PM says no member of govt involved in vote-buying

No member of the ruling Congress party or the coalition government was involved in vote -buying during a 2008 confidence vote, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament on Friday.

March 18, 2011 / 15:04 IST

No member of the ruling Congress party or the coalition government was involved in vote -buying during a 2008 confidence vote, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament on Friday.

The opposition forced parliament to adjourn for a second day on Friday and demanded Singh resign over a WikiLeaks report that his party paid bribes to win a confidence vote in 2008, a fresh blow to the scandal-tainted coalition.

first published: Mar 18, 2011 02:49 pm

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