BSP MPs urge Lok Sabha Speaker for high level probe

Lucknow, Apr 22 (UNI) The two disgruntled BSP MPs Mitrasen Yadav and Ashok Rawat, whose names have been dragged in the human trafficking controversy, today urged the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to order a high level probe into the allegations.

Talking to UNI here, Mr Yadav and Mr Rawat charged it was a conspiracy hatched by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to derail the BSP's winning streak in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

While Mr Yadav is BSP MP from Faizabad, Mr Rawat is MP from Mishrik.

Both the MPs said they were ready for any probe by the parliamentary committee or sitting judge of Supreme Court or High Court into the allegations.

Both also denied that they had visted any foreign country with their family members.

However, Mr Yadav said, ''Sunderlal who has taken the name of BSP leaders belongs to his Faizabad constituency.'' Senior counsel Harjoth Singh, on behalf of the two MPs said, ''I will send letters to the Lok Sabha Speaker and Union Home Ministry to order a high lever probe into the allegations.'' Meanwhile, in Sultanpur, BSP supremo Ms Mayawati accused the opposition for unnecessarily naming BSP MPs in the case. However, she quipped ''If found guilty, they will not be spared.'' BSP MP from Sultanpur Mohd Tahir Khan, whose name has been dragged by suspended BJP MP Babu Bhai Katara, said, ''I am innocent and have got nothing to do with the episode. It is all the handiwork of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and BJP.

''I do not know Mr Katara. I have not met him even once,'' he claimed.

UNI