The Congress will move a privilege motion against BJP MP Subramanian Swamy and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for what the party described as “lying in Parliament” during the AgustaWestland debate.
“These two leaders have been lying blatantly and brazenly,” senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member, Jairam Ramesh said, talking to reporters on Thursday.
“Subramanian Swamy spoke against Sonia Gandhi and other Congress leaders in Parliament and kept referring to a document which according to him was an Italian court's judgment. In reality, this is a 13-page document consisting of two pages of emails from Swamy to himself. Nine pages of the report were downloaded from www.pgurus.com and the remaining two pages are part of a news story run by an Indian news channel,” Mr. Ramesh added.
The Breach of Privilege notices against Mr.Swamy and Mr.Parrikar are likely to be filed with Rajya Sabha chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Friday, which is expected to be the last day of the ongoing session, Mr Ramesh said.
“The document which Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar referred as the Italian court's judgment in the Lok Sabha are actually minutes of a meeting attended by the NSA,” he said.
The party also announced that it will file defamation case against a U.S.-based website, >www.pguru.com , which it alleged is linked with the Sangh Parivar.
