Trinamool 'sting' to be examined by MPs headed by LK Advani

March 16, 2016 15:13

For Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party, a scandal centred on video of senior leaders -- many of them parliamentarians -- accepting money, reportedly in exchange for extending favours to a firm, took on new dimensions today with Parliament deciding to investigate the footage.

Derek O'Brien, an MP from the Trinamool Congress, said the footage is doctored, and that Parliament should look at whether it got "foreign funding" from Dubai - he said records show the news site that uploaded the footage made several calls to Dubai before it broke the story on Monday. Read more

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