Recovery of ₹50,000 stirs parliament row

A political storm rocked Parliament on Friday after Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar announced that an unclaimed wad of currency notes was found in an Upper House seat allotted to Congress member Abhishek Singhvi, triggering protests from the Congress and the senior lawmaker. Dhankhar said an anti-sabotage team, while carrying out the mandatory search inside the House on Thursday, found a wad of currency notes from seat number 222 allotted to Singhvi. Addressing the members of the Upper House soon after papers were laid in the morning, Dhankhar said an anti-sabotage team, while carrying out the mandatory search inside the House on Thursday, found a wad of currency notes from seat number 222 allotted to Singhvi. “During the routine anti-sabotage check after the adjournment of the House yesterday, apparently a wad of currency notes was recovered by the security officials from seat number 222 presently allotted to Abhishek Manu Singhvi, elected from the state of Telangana,” he said.