Operation Duryodhana

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Operation Duryodhana [1] (2005) was the code name of a sting operation, which captured on camera eleven members of Parliament of India accepting money to table questions on the floor of the Parliament. [2]

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This was the first such sting operation in the history of Republic of India, and all the members were expelled from the Parliament.[ citation needed ] Ten of them belonged to 14th Lok Sabha while one was from Rajya Sabha.[ citation needed ]

The operation was named after the Mahabharata character Duryodhana who is popularly viewed as evil and power-hungry.[ citation needed ]

The eleven members involved were:

  1. Narendra Kushwaha (BSP) - Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh: Rs 55,000
  2. Annasaheb M. K. Patil (BJP) - Erandol, Maharashtra: Rs 45,000
  3. Chhatrapal Singh Lodha (BJP) - Odisha (Rajya Sabha) : Rs 15,000
  4. Y. G. Mahajan (BJP) - Jalgaon, Maharashtra: Rs 35,000
  5. Manoj Kumar (Rashtriya Janata Dal) - Palamau, Jharkhand: Rs 110,000
  6. Suresh Chandel (BJP) - Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh: Rs 30,000
  7. Raja Ram Pal (BSP) - Bilhaur, Uttar Pradesh  : Rs 35,000
  8. Lal Chandra Kol (BSP) - Robertsganj, Uttar Pradesh: Rs 35,000
  9. Pradeep Gandhi (BJP) - Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh: Rs 55,000
  10. Chandra Pratap Singh (BJP) - Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh  : Rs 35,000
  11. Ramsevak Singh (Congress) - Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh: Rs 50,000

The party-wise breakup is:

The party breakup is a result of the access the journalists had to different politicians (many of the BJP leads were connected to their original contacts).

Conversion rates: approx. Rs. 45 was one US Dollar towards the end of 2005.

References

  1. ↑ "How Operation Duryodhan was born". DNA India. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Sting operation exposes 11 MPs willing to lobby for fake Australian oil major for cash". The Times of India. 13 December 2013. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 27 May 2023.
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