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SHRI ANADI SAHU : They are admiring mean men and a person who was trying to create problem for this democracy and for this Constitution itself. The Congress Party did not take any action at all for days together because the CBI investigation has been mooted and has been started. Yesterday only they were able to muster some courage to say that action has to be taken and all those things. We have to take into consideration the facts relating to the situation which has been prevalent in this country now as to how we should get over the difficulties relating to defections and why, by lure of money, the representatives are being taken. I must admire the prompt steps taken by Shri L.K. Advani and Shri Arun Jaitley to bring to the notice of people of this country as to what type of action is being taken by some people who, I said, are megalomaniac in character. This has to be kept in mind. It is rather unfortunate that men of rank, of wealth and education succumb to the unprincipled action which make them dead fish and like dead fish, they cannot go against the current and they have to float with the current.

The emphasis was not on whether he took money or not; the emphasis was on inquiring into all aspects relating to making and publication of these allegations. That proof was equated with an allegation. This term of reference is nothing but wanting to thwart any investigative journalism in future. It was intended to intimidate, to threaten all those journalists who take up the cudgels to expose corruption in our system, in our society.

Sir, the matter does not end there. Just two days after Shri Judev’s this incident happened, Shri L.K. Advani goes to Raipur and says "it is for the first time that Indian politics and elections have been influenced by sting operation." The Supreme Court, and on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission has laid down elaborate forms for the candidates to declare their assets, to declare if they have ever been involved in any criminal case, but here, the Deputy Prime Minister of the country wants that all these matters should not be exposed during the election period. Further, permit me to quote the hon. Deputy Prime Minister. He said, "I hope, CBI will not only probe whether Judev is guilty or not but would also investigate how this operation happened."