India's upper house of parliament on Tuesday suspended one of its members after a TV channel aired footage of 11 MPs allegedly accepting cash for asking questions in parliament.
The suspension of Chhattrapal Singh Lodha came as newspapers splashed on their front pages news of the "sting" shown on television screens across the nation.
The Hindustan Times ran pictures of the legislators taking money under the headline: "Men who sold our House."
"MPs on sale for just 10,000 rupees," said a headline in The Times of India. Lodha, who belongs to the main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was the lone member of the appointed upper house named in the scandal.
Aaj Tak television station, which carried out the sting, had sent a reporter posing as a businessman. The station said it launched a fake business before staging the 11-month-long sting operation.
The MPs took between 110,000 rupees (2,558 dollars) and 10,000 rupees (232 dollars) each to ask questions in parliament.