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Amar: Tycoon, MP tapped my phone
SAMAJWADI PARTY general secretary Amar Singh on Friday accused an industrialist and a journalist-turned MP of being involved in the "conspiracy" to tap his phone. He also hit back at the Congress and demanded that the tapes be made public. "I am not afraid of blackmail and will expose those behind the entire operation. I will continue to raise my voice," he told reporters on Friday, shortly after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function in Greater Noida.
SAMAJWADI PARTY general secretary Amar Singh on Friday accused an industrialist and a journalist-turned MP of being involved in the "conspiracy" to tap his phone. He also hit back at the Congress and demanded that the tapes be made public.
"I am not afraid of blackmail and will expose those behind the entire operation. I will continue to raise my voice," he told reporters on Friday, shortly after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function in Greater Noida.
Amar Singh said the government wasn't interested in exposing the culprits because Congress president Sonia Gandhi had a role in getting his phone tapped.
He even claimed that Sonia Gandhi had at least 60 tapes of leaders of different political parties, including that of BJP and Congress.
The SP leader, who met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha on Thursday, said he would meet leaders of non-Congress parties in the next few days. "After that, I will meet the President, the Vice-President and Speaker Lok Sabha Somnath Chaterjee," he said.
Singh directed his ire at AICC spokesperson Ambika Soni for describing him as 'fund raiser and majnu' and at RJD chief Lalu Yadav for saying that the contents of the tape be made public. "Let Sonia, Lalu, Ambika and Rajiv Shukla address a joint press conference and accept who all are behind it," he said.
