Two days before the trust vote, it's political do-or-die situation and MPs have alleged that votes are being bought for up to Rs 25 crore. So is this exchange legal? To evaluate its legality, we'll have to recall the bribery incidents of 1993 - the Congress had paid ten MPs from Jharkhand and UP in 1993 to vote in favour of the P V Narasimha Rao government. It was all documented, the Jharkhand MPs even deposited the amount in their bank accounts.