The JD(U) on Friday issued show cause notice to three of its MPs caught in a sting operation — where they were shown allegedly expressing willingness to write letters of recommendations and lobby for a fictitious foreign oil company for fees ranging from Rs50,000 to Rs50 lakh. They have been asked to make their stand clear before Sharad Yadav by this weekend.
The show cause notice has been served on Vishwamohan Kumar, Bhudeo Choudhury and Maheshwar Hazari. The three have been asked to respond by the weekend “otherwise the party will be forced to take a serious decision.”
JD(U) general secretary KC Tyagi said the party has taken a “serious note” of the sting operation. “Party chief Sharad Yadav has considered it as a betrayal of JD(U)’s basic principles and philosophy... The party was formed on the foundation of fight against corruption,” the identical but separate notices said.
A sting operation carried out by portal Cobrapost has shown that 11 MPs from Congress, BJP, JD(U), AIADMK and BSP were ready to write letters of recommendations and lobby for a fictitious foreign oil company for fees ranging from Rs50,000 to Rs50 lakh.
The MPs seen in the sting videos are K Sugumar and C Rajendran (AIADMK), lalu Bhai Patel, Ravindra Kumar Pandey and Hari Manjhi (BJP), Vishwa Mohan Kumar, Maheshwar Hazari and Bhudeo Chaudhary (JD-U), Khiladi lal Bairwa and Vikrambhai Arjanbhai (Congress) and Kaiser Jahan (BSP).