Congress attacked on BJP on phone tapping matter.
Late on Saturday evening, PTI reported that the Union Home Ministry had sent a communication to the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan, seeking a report on the allegations of phone tapping.
The BJP said that such "exploitation" was not allowed by the authorities concerned. "The Home and Chief Secretaries have refused permission ... Is it not a violation of our civil rights to tap phones without authorization?" The party said.
The Congress said the BJP's remarks amounted to an "admission of crime" in the "killing of democracy" in the state, and the party was only concerned about "why we were recorded and the recording was valid".
The Ashok Gehlot government on Saturday secured the support of two Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) MLAs in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, withdrawing the number of MLAs to 103 in the 200 house (excluding 19 rebels). The government claimed at least 109 are with it. Earlier, the BTP had asked both of them to back down from either side in terms of test votes.
The Congress on Friday demanded the arrest of two audio tapes citing Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and rebel Congress MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma for conspiring to arrest the Ashok Gehlot government. The Rajasthan Police's Special Operations Group (SOG) has registered criminal cases in the case.
The BJP has described the audio clip as "manufactured", and Shekhawat has said that the voice in the clip was not his.
Demanding a CBI probe into the phone's "unconstitutional" as well as "unconstitutional" tapping by the Rajasthan government, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said on Saturday that senior Congress leaders including Gehlot were calling the audio clip authentic. However, the police-registered FIR does not say so.
"These are serious questions we want to ask the Congress high command and Ashok Gehlot. Was the phone tapping done? Suppose you tapped the phone, was the SOP complied? Did the Congress government in Rajasthan call themselves Have used unconstitutional methods to save? ”Patra asked at a press conference.
He said that people's phones were being tapped in politics. "Isn't it a case of emergency in Rajasthan?"
Patra accused the Congress of having a history of "phone tapping and bugging", a line mentioned in the previous UPA government.
He also called the political crisis in Rajasthan the result of a quarrel between Gehlot and rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot. Patra said, "Political drama ... is a cocktail of intrigues, fabricated stories, fabricated lies and illegality ... sin was theirs."
Former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje, whose absence from Jaipur and the silence on the entire case has been commented, said it was wrong to blame the BJP for this. Stating that "people are paying for discord in the Congress", Raje said, "There is no point in dragging the names of BJP and its leaders through the mud."
BJP's ally Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal alleged that Vasundhara ji is trying to save the Gehlot government, in a tweet, she said, 'I have been serving the public as a loyal worker of the party for the last three decades And stand with the party and its ideology. "
Gehlot wanted to oust the government, on which senior BJP leader. C. Kataria said in Jaipur, "We do not want a floor test. But, if Ashok Gehlotji feels he has a majority, he should prove it in the assembly."
The Congress said the demand for a CBI probe was due to the BJP's questionable role in the case. "We all witnessed the murder of democracy last week, which is the murder of democracy being done by BJP ... BJP has now accepted its role ... Their only complaint was that while we were killing, So why were we being recorded, and if we were being recorded, was it legal, ”Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said in Delhi.
Khera said the SOG team, which went to a hotel in Manesar, Haryana, was intercepted by the Haryana Police residing there as part of an investigation of audio tapes to collect voice samples of rebel ministers and MLAs. Role of BJP. He said the legislators were allowed to "quietly and secretly ... run through the back door of the hotel".
Addressing the media in Jaipur, Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dastara said: “Will Sachin Pilot ji and his fellow Congress MLAs tell us why they do not trust the police of their state? How do they trust the BJP government's police in Haryana? "
The party said it had heard that efforts were being made to move the MLAs to another BJP-ruled state of Karnataka.