The cash-for-votes incident at the time of confidence vote in 2008 should be seen as a scam and it tarnishes the image of the UPA government further. WikiLeaks states that "Manmohan Singh and others tried to work on Akali Dal (8 votes) through financier Sant Chatwal and others." It was a begrime incident that would make the UPA-I's existence from July 2008 to till it lasted immoral. When some MPs displayed wads of currency notes in the Parliament, the government could get away by projecting it as a machination of the BJP and LK Advani to unseat the UPA and describing it as a sensational act. It turns out that the MPs served the nation by denuding the clandestine deals behind the doors before the nation. Will the Congress now answer what was the source of the money with which the support of some MPs was bought? Can the Congress prove its transparency today?

By Viswanath V,
Published: The New Indian Express