Thursday, December 22 2005 14:51 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The five-member House committee which went into the cash-for-query scam has ruled that the continuance of the ten accused members was 'untenable' and recommended their expulsion from the House.

The 10 accused members are Narendra Kumar Kushwaha (BSP), Annasaheb M K Patil (BJP), Manoj Kumar (RJD), Y G Mahajan (BJP), Pradeep Gandhi (BJP), Suresh Chandel (BJP), Ramsevak Singh (Cong), Lal Chandra Kol (BSP), Rajaram Pal (BSP) and Chandra Pratap Singh (BJP).

One of the Committee members, V K Malhotra of the BJP, has, however, given a note of dissent saying, "No member of the House can be expelled except for the breach of privilege of the House."

"I will not like to become a party to create a precedent by which a member can be expelled from the House without proper procedure being adopted," Malhotra said in the dissent note, suggesting that the matter must be dealt according to the rules of the Privileges Committee.