NEW DELHI: Under attack for the cash-for-vote scandal, Samajwadi Party on Friday demanded that the tapes be made public and that allegations be proved.

SP general secretary Amar Singh told reporters that he had nothing to do with bribery and he had not met the three BJP MPs who had made the charge. Calling it a BJP-BSP conspiracy to malign him, he said he would leave public life if the charges were proved. “Let the tapes be made public,” he said.

The Rajya Sabha MP said his party had lost six MPs during the confidence motion as they were kept in UP Bhavan under the watch of state officers. He said despite suffering poaching, his party did not resort to such tactics.

He said BJP leader V K Malhotra owed an answer to the nation on the allegation levelled by RJD MP Pappu Yadav that he visited him in Tihar jail and offered him money. “All parties should sit together to ponder over the issues of defection and immoral behaviour of their elected representatives. The blame game must end,” he said.

Taking exception to violence at the rebel BJP MPs’ residences, he said SP did not ask its supporters to attack the rebels’ property. Meanwhile, the party has expelled the six defector MPs for defying the whip to vote in favour of UPA.

“We’ll inform the Speaker about our decision tomorrow,” Singh said. The MPs are Jai Prakash (Mohanlalganj), S P Singh Baghel (Jalesar), Raj Narain Budhaulia (Hamirpur), Afzal Ansari (Gazipur), Ateeq Ahmed (Phulpur) and Munnawar Hussain (Muzaffarnagar).