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26 January, 2006

Bansal quits PAC membership over MPLAD fund fraud charge

Chandigarh Newsline
Chandigarh, January 25: Local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal today tendered his resignation from membership of the Parliament Affairs Committee (PAC) after his name surfaced in controversial allocation of MPLAD funds worth Rs 5 lakh to Chandigarh Golf Club. The amount was allegedly allocated in the year 2000 for construction of squash courts at the Club. ...
... Welcoming Bansal's decision, former MP Satya Pal Jain demanded a PAC probe into misuse of public money and called for similar yardstick as adopted against MPs who were recently exposed of having accepted bribes to pose questions in Parliament. ...