New Delhi, March 23: Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh Wednesday said he had followed his party’s instructions during the 2008 trust vote and demanded that the probe into the alleged purchasing of votes include all those who had cross-voted.
“I was involved at that time as a member of a particular political party. I was following the instruction of the leader of the party,” Singh said in Rajya Sabha during the debate on the discussion arising from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement last week.
Amar Singh said he had been described as the main player in the episode by Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley.
Singh, who is not seen very often in the upper house now, demanded that National Democratic Alliance (NDA) members who voted for the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and UPA members who voted for the NDA should be brought in the ambit of investigation.
-Agencies