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Mr. Speaker Sir, so far as we are concerned, our stand is very clear that the law must take its own course. This is a matter on which naturally the country is very much agitated. We had, as a matter of fact, even resigned from the House. Therefore, we are not minimising the importance of this matter. The only thing that we have noticed today is that materials which formed a part of the present charge-sheet were available with the Government for quite some time. Nothing new has come to the possession of the Government. As a matter of fact, the earlier Government had not decided to proceed further until the last batch of documents were made available which are now still with the Swiss authorities because it was apprehended that there were many other persons, some names are obviously known, who are suspected to be involved. Their complicity or their participation in whatever may have happened was likely to come out of this document. Therefore, when these materials were available with the document all along even with the previous Government, even the present Government which was then in the opposition had not insisted piecemeal filing of the charge-sheet. It was never suggested. Therefore, until and unless those documents came, why suddenly the Government decides to proceed with the charge-sheet which is apparently not a complete charge-sheet?
What we felt is whether the Government has anything in its mind to protect somebody, some highly placed persons who may have now made up with the ruling party or the ruling combination. They are very powerful people, known to be very powerful, very affluent people also. Therefore, I think the Government owes an explanation as to why after results are out, this bifurcation of charge-sheet.