New Delhi: Phone-tapping seems to have become a common concern - or at least a common allegation, cutting across party lines in the Opposition.
First it was Samajwadi Party's Amar Singh, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha and Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu, it’s now the former BJP president L K Advani who has alleged that his phone is being tapped.
BJP chief Rajnath Singh says all parties will meet soon to decide what kind of probe to seek on the issue.
Samajwadi party General Secretary Amar Singh has, meanwhile, moved the Supreme Court seeking judicial probe into his phone tapping case.
Accusing Congress President Sonia Gandhi of ordering the tapping of his telephone, Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh demanded an impartial inquiry into the entire episode.
"I will drag all concerned to the court to prove my point," said Singh.
Coming down heavily on Congress General Secretary Ambika Soni for her remarks in the episode, Singh said he did not want a CBI probe into the issue, as suggested by her.
It is well-known that CBI becomes the tool and arm of the ruling dispensation. It has given a clean chit to Satish Sharma in the Petroleum scam after UPA came to power at the Centre. It also cleared BSP leader Mayawati in the Taj corridor scam. Under these circumstances, how can I believe CBI," he said.
The Samajwadi Party leader praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for describing the tapping as a "serious matter". On the other hand he was very unimpressed by the remarks of the other Congress leaders on the issue.
On the arrest of a private detective for the tapping, Singh said he did not want "any cover up on the issue. I want the real culprits to be booked. The man arrested, under police torture, may even name me".
Only a probe by non-Congress, non-BJP Chief Ministers would be "impartial and unbiased," he said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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