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BJP ministers waving wads of currency notes in the Parliament before the trust vote on July 22 |
"The BJP has been compelled to decide that it will boycott CNN-IBN and channels related to it till such time as the unedited tapes of the notes-for-votes scandal are telecast," senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said.
He said he was "deeply dismayed" over the channel's decision not to telecast the sting operation that allegedly showed how three BJP MPs were bribed to abstain from the floor test on July 22 that the ruling Congress-led UPA won.
He said that till the tapes are telecast, no BJP functionary in Delhi or in the states would appear on CNN-IBN programmes, whether in the studios or outside.
"The BJP believes that the channel's decision to withhold the tapes from the public seriously compromises the freedom of press," he said.
A seven-member Lok Sabha committee is probing the matter and has summoned the three BJP MPs Ashok Argal, Fagan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora today.
