File pic of Giriraj Singh, a senior BJP leader from Bihar
A senior BJP leader from Bihar says that the one crore in cash found at his home is not his.
"It belongs to a cousin of mine.
Giriraj Singh is clean, and will remain so," the politician said referring to himself in the third person.
Mr Singh, a 61-year-old national law-maker, anchored a marquis controversy of the national election when he declared that critics of his party's Narendra Modi, then running for prime minister, should move to Pakistan. (
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The police said on Tuesday that it would ask Mr Singh to explain the wads of cash. In his election papers in May, Mr Singh said he owns about two lakhs in cash.
The opposition has dared him to explain the money discovered at his home.
"It is a political conspiracy," Mr Singh said to reporters last night.