CHANDIGARH: Rajya Sabha member from Haryana and senior Congress leader Birender Singh on Monday raise a controversy that there were people who shelled out up to Rs 100 crore to get a seat in the Upper House of Parliament.

"Once someone told me that he had a budget of Rs 100 crore to become a Rajya Sabha MP. According to him, when he tallied the expenditure later, he found it was Rs 80 crore and he had ended up saving Rs 20 crore," Birender Singh had stated while addressing a meeting at Narwana (Jind) recently. "Not one, but I can tell you names of 20 (such) people," Birender Singh said.

"Now, do you think the people who get a membership of Rajya Sabha by investing Rs 100 crore will think about the poor," he had asked. "They establish themselves there (Rajya Sabha) and then become part of the deals happening there," Birender Singh said.

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