Ajit Singh slams WikiLeaks, calls it utterly rubbish

Vehemently trashing the reports of allegedly favouring the UPA over the Indo-US nuke deal and voting for the Manmohan Singh government, the Rashtriya Lok
Dal has termed cables as “a bunch of lies” and utterly baseless” while demanding a through probe into the entire issue.
RLD leader and Member of Parliament Chaudhary Ajit Singh told PBD, “It is utterly rubbish. The RLD voted against the UPA Government in 2008.”
According to the Wikileaks, US Embassy political counselor, after a visit to MP Satish Sharma’s house, reported that Sharma’s aide Nachiketa Kapur showed him two bags of currency and told him that Rs 10 crore had been paid to four RLD members to seek their votes in favour of the Congress party.
The RLD on July 20, 2008 has issued a Whip against the UPA Government, a copy of which was also sent to the then Lok Sabha Speaker. The three MPs included Anuradha Chaudhary and Munshi Ram voted against the UPA-1.
“The party had three Members of Parliament whereas the cables mention that we had four members. They are spreading lies. Our stand was clear and we had made it known even before the voting was about to take place,” Singh said.
However, Samajwadi Party former MP Brij Bhushan Singh, trying to gain political mileage, claimed that the RLD MPs abstained from voting on nuclear deal trust vote. Ajit Singh refused to elaborate on the personal comments of a rival MP. “It is a matter of record. The Lok Sabha records will reveal the details,” he said. The Congress got 275 for and 265 against the motion. The RLD voted against the motion.
“I had issued a Whip to RLD party MPs that they were to be present in the House and openly voted against the Manmohan Singh government,” he said at his residence on Tuglak Road.
According to press reports in 2008, the RLD had pressed for a vote against the government and even was in touch with TDP, BSP and other parties.
“On July 20, 2008, I issued a public letter, a copy of which was sent to the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. Ultimately we voted against the UPA government,” Singh, former union minister, said.
The world over, Wikileaks has come under fire for publishing unverified reports.
A source of Wikileaks is presently in US prison and even its editor Julian Assange is facing sexual charges in Sweden.
“We voted against the Congress party. "We had opposed the (Indo-US) nuclear deal and after talking to MPs from Opposition parties we had decided to vote
against the government," Singh said.
Singh said he was open to any probe. “I have been a MP for the sixth-term and have been a minister. But till date, I have not taken a single favour from the government nor have taken any land from the Government. I am open for any probe,” Singh added.
The RLD has five LS members and one Rajya Sabha member at present. The party has a strong base in Uttar Pradesh, particularly Western part of the state. Singh is an IIT graduate and a computer scientist before picking up the legacy of his father and former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh.