New Delhi: The CNN-IBN expose on Thursday on two BSP MPs who had provided false information on their passports has made an impact.
On Friday, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee told CNN-IBN that he had asked the LS Secretary General to take up the matter with the Ministry of External Affairs.
He also praised the media for conducting such sting operations and has said that such exposes would go a long way in making the leaders more accountable to the public.
Sources in Parliament told CNN-IBN that the Speaker has taken the matter very seriously and has not ruled out the expulsion of the two MPs in question.
The Speaker is also reportedly miffed with his secretarial office for not informing him about the matter earlier.
Meanwhile, BSP supremo Mayawati, avoided the media. "Do I not have any other work or what?" she said, rushing out of Parliament.
BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has demanded an inquiry into the incident.
"There should be investigations in to the passport scam and if there are indeed amy lapses action should be taken. No one is above the law," Naqvi said.
Ramakant Yadav, a three-time Member of Parliament from Azamgarh in UP, and his party colleague and MP from Khalilabad, Bal Chandra Yadav, had lodged a false FIR claiming they had lost their passports after which they were issued new ones.
CNN-IBN Correspondent Parul Malhotra then discovered that their old passports were, infact, with the Canadian High Commission awaiting visas.
She also found that the photograph of Ramakant Yadav's wife, Ranjana, sent with her visa application form was a computer-generated image.
The original photo of Ramakant Yadav's wife, dug out by the MEA, did not match the one submitted to the High Commission.
Bal Chandra had also tampered with the passport photograph of his wife, Phola Devi, and forged the signatures.
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