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Political party behind phone tapping: SP MP
REACTING TO the Centre terming the phone-tapping of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh as a ?sting operation?, SP MP Akhilesh Yadav said a sting operation always targeted many persons and not an individual. ?Tapping of Amar Singh?s phone is illegal and unconstitutional and done at the behest of a major political party. In a country like the United States iof America, it has once been opposed.
REACTING TO the Centre terming the phone-tapping of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh as a ‘sting operation’, SP MP Akhilesh Yadav said a sting operation always targeted many persons and not an individual.
“Tapping of Amar Singh’s phone is illegal and unconstitutional and done at the behest of a major political party. In a country like the United States iof America, it has once been opposed. The president had to apologise and step down from his post in 1974 in connection with the phone-tapping of Watergate election office in 1972,” he said.
Talking to HT here on Sunday, Akhilesh alleged that Opposition parties like the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party were engaged in tarnishing the image of the SP.
However, the SP would give them a point blank reply and bring the facts before the masses, he said. Even the Planning Commission of India sanctioned a package of Rs 19,000 crore for Uttar Pradesh, he added.
He further said the Opposition parties had no issue to speak against the SP because of improvement in law and order and the power front, growth of the agricultural sector and implementation of welfare schemes.
Most of the electorates in Amethi and Rae Bareli favoured the SP because of grant of special development package of Rs 200 crore, Akhilesh said.
All four youth wings of the party will hold a convention in Lucknow on January 29 to spread awareness about the achievements of the SP, he further said.
Later, from February 22, the activists would take out cycle processions in each district of the State to inform the masses about SP’s achievements, he added.
