Rejecting as 'wild' the charges that bribe was paid during the 2008 confidence motion, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took on the Opposition for creating hue and cry over diplomatic communications, saying it was a 'dangerous' thing to do.

Text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s identical statements in the two houses of Parliament after short-duration discussions on allegations that members of parliament were bribed to win the trust vote in July 2008: "As honourable members will recall, several members had raised allegations, based on reports in a newspaper, about purported cables from the US embassy in New Delhi to their authorities in Washington.

The cash-for-vote scam is expected to cast its shadow on Parliament on Tuesday with the BJP planning to move a privilege motion against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for allegedly misleading both Houses over the WikiLeak expose.

BJP was on Saturday engulfed by WikiLeaks expose with US diplomatic cables stating that the party leadership had told them that its criticism of the US in public was to score "easy political points" against UPA and when in power, it would not harm the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said that a recent expose by WikiLeaks has "vindicated" his party's stand that opposition MPs were "bribed" to win vote of confidence by UPA in 2008.

He had not authorised anyone to purchase any votes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh clarified on Friday, a day after he came under attack for alleged disclosures on WikiLeaks that his government had bought MPs ahead of the 2008 trust vote.

Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday said the Wikileaks expose has shown that the United States has "influenced" various Central governments.

US ambassador Timothy J. Roemer on Friday declined to comment on the WikiLeaks report on the purported purchase of opposition MPs ahead of the confidence vote in 2008.

Strongly rejecting allegations of bribery during the 2008 trust vote, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said nobody from the Congress or the government engaged in any 'unlawful act' and the charges were 'unverified and speculative'.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Thursday demanded the 'immediate' resignation of the Manmohan Singh government in the wake of the revelations in leaked US diplomatic cables that payoffs had been made to MPs to ensure majority in confidence vote in 2008.