The Newshour Debate: 90 minute bribe bomb war

"Our MLAs being offered 1 crore and one ministership and the Governor is not doing anything, says Pavan Verma. JD (U) is making serious allegations of horse trading on the Newshour last evening (February 12) and JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar backing it up. Barely had Nitish Kumar finished, the BJP hitting back. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Telecom Minister said, "BJP refutes these allegations. They are wrong. We did not expect Nitish Kumar to make such low and baseless charges. We reject his allegations. Within minutes Nitish Kumar making a fresh attack, "BJP was trying to put all the blame on me. They are playing the caste card. We will question the BJP." But the BJP was ready with a reply, "Because of his pathological hatred of Modi, Nitish Kumar has lost a lot of political ground but still does not learn, Ravi Shankar Prasad said. 90 minutes and a newsbreak had exploded - live on television - as TIMES NOW once again sets the news agenda.

In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Pavan Kumar Verma, MP, Rajya Sabha JD (U); Sanjay Jha, Spokesperson Congress; GVL Narasimha Rao, Nat'l Spokesperson & Member Electoral Reforms, BJP; Sankarshan Thakur, Roving Editor, The Telegraph; Srikant Sharma, National Secretary, BJP and M R Venkatesh, Chartered Accountant & Policy Analyst -- discuss the issue -- is there proof of horse trading?