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More legislators involved in Karnataka porngate
Thursday March 08, 2012 10:45:34 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Several
Karnataka legislators have viewed porn clips in the assembly and
not just three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers who quit
over the issue Feb 8, a panel probing the incident said Thursday.
Shrishailappa Bidarur of BJP, who is heading the panel comprising
assembly members, told reporters here that legal opinion was being
sought on summoning all assembly members believed to have watched
the clips.
Another BJP member on the panel Nehru Olekar claimed that at least
10 assembly members from different political parties have watched
porn clips.
Ministers Laxman Savadi and C.C. Patil were caught Feb 7 by
cameras of private TV channels watching a porn clip in the house
on the cell phone, they said, belonged to another minister J.
Krishna Palemar. They quit the next day following public outcry.
The three appeared before the panel in Bangalore Thursday. Savadi
and Patil declined to talk to the media while Palemar said he has
no role in the episode.
Assembly Speaker K.G. Bopaiah set up the seven-member panel --
four from BJP, two from Congress and one from Janata Dal-Secular
-- to probe the incident. However the Congress and JD-S members
are boycotting the panel meeting reducing it to a BJP affair.
The Congres and JD-S stand is that there is no need for a probe as
TV cameras had caught the ministers in the act and they should be
expelled from the assembly.
Bidarur said the panel will seek more time to submit its report,
though the speaker had fixed March 13 for it.
"We will hold the next meeting March 15," Bidarur said.
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