{
 "no": 74,
 "id": "case-74",
 "sk": 20080722,
 "year": 2008,
 "date": "22 Jul 2008 (trust vote)",
 "cat": "Democratic institutions",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Cash for votes. Currency waved on the floor of the Lok Sabha",
 "stamp": "Notes on camera. Nobody's government fell.",
 "human": {
  "v": "A confidence vote in Parliament, and a bundle of notes held up in the chamber to prove it had been bought",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Cash allegedly offered to MPs to abstain from a vote the government needed to survive",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "On 22 July 2008, ahead of the confidence vote the UPA needed to survive the nuclear deal, three BJP MPs walked into the Lok Sabha and waved wads of currency notes, alleging they had been paid to vote for the government. The government won the vote.",
 "dodge": "A parliamentary committee investigated and could not conclude who had paid. A police investigation years later jailed aides on both sides, including an aide to the leader of the opposition and a Congress MP, but never established who authorised the money. Both parties accused the other of staging it. The vote itself was never revisited.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Union Government (UPA)",
   "r": "Won the vote; alleged to have bought it"
  },
  {
   "n": "Bharatiya Janata Party",
   "r": "MPs who displayed the cash; accused of staging the sting"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government called the display a fabricated stunt designed to discredit a vote it had won legitimately. The opposition said it was proof of bribery caught in the act.",
 "alleg": "Who paid, and whether the display was a genuine exposure or a set-up, was <em>never established</em>. Both accounts remain allegations.",
 "alt": "A vote annulled and re-held while the money was investigated, rather than a government seated for five years on a result nobody could vouch for.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Business Standard: timeline of the cash-for-vote case",
   "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/timeline-of-cash-for-vote-scam-case-113112201174_1.html",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "Deccan Herald: money in the House that shocked a nation",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/india/money-house-shocked-nation-2402000",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-74/"
}