Claim
L.K. Advani('s side) brought bags/suitcases full of currency notes into Parliament (referring to the 2008 cash-for-votes episode).
“लालकिश आडवाणी संसद के अंदर नोटों से भरे बैग लेकर आए थे”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The underlying event is real — on 22 July 2008, bags containing about Rs 1 crore in currency notes were displayed in the Lok Sabha during the trust vote on the Indo-US nuclear deal. But it was three BJP MPs (Argal, Kulaste, Bhagora), not L.K. Advani, who carried and waved the cash, and they did so claiming it was bribe money offered by the ruling UPA side to buy their abstention. Advani, then Leader of Opposition, never brought cash into Parliament; his link is that the MPs belonged to his party and his aide Sudheendra Kulkarni was accused of masterminding the sting (all accused were later discharged). Saying 'Advani brought bags full of notes into Parliament' misattributes the act to Advani personally and inverts its context, so the statement distorts a real episode rather than inventing one.
Evidence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-votes_scandal During the 22 July 2008 trust vote, three BJP MPs — Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora — produced bundles of cash from bags on the Lok Sabha floor, alleging the UPA side had offered it to buy their abstention. L.K. Advani is not recorded as carrying any cash; his aide Sudheendra Kulkarni was later alleged to have orchestrated the sting operation. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-2008-cash-for-vote-scam-rs-1-crore-seized-from-scam-to-go-to-pm-relief-fund-2125149 Confirms the Rs 1 crore displayed in the Lok Sabha was seized from the three former BJP MPs (not Advani), and that all accused — Amar Singh, the three ex-BJP MPs and others — were discharged, with the cash sent to the PM's Relief Fund. ✗ unreachable · HTTP 403
- https://www.bjp.org/pressreleases/shri-lk-advanijis-latest-blog-pms-indefensible-defence-bribery Advani's own contemporaneous position: he accused the UPA government of bribery and demanded the PM resign — i.e., his party presented the cash as evidence of a bribe offered to its MPs, not as money Advani brought in. ✗ unreachable