BENGALURU: The opposition party of BJP on Wednesday once again raised the issue of phone tapping by the H D Kumaraswamy led coalition government in the state.
At the party joining event of Congress senior leader Baburao Chinchansoor, BJP state president, and opposition leader B S Yeddyurappa cited that the state government under Kumaraswamy directions were indulging in tapping the saffron party leaders phones.
“Yes, it is true that my phone is being tapped and that of my party colleagues,” said Yeddyurappa.
The former chief minister also said the government had not even spared the Congress legislature party leader and co-ordination committee chairman
Siddaramaiah.
“Forget my phone being tapped, the Kumaraswamy government has even tapped the phone their own coalition partner and former CM Siddaramaiah,” he claimed.
Yeddyurappa said there needs to be a detailed probe into the fresh phone tapping scandal, citing that the ruling JD(S)-Congress government does not have confidence in their rank and file.
Yeddyurappa’s statement comes in the backdrop of the BJP MLAs claiming that the Kumaraswamy government was tapping phones of their own MLAs and opposition party leaders.
The fresh allegations of phone tapping is nothing new in the state, with three BJP MPs including his confidante
Shobha Karandlaje, Bangalore central constituency MP PC Mohan and former union minister G M Siddeshwara writing letters to union home minister
Rajnath Singh, citing their phones were being tapped when Yeddyurappa was scheduled to take oath on May 17.
Prior to the state assembly elections, the previous Congress government alleging that the centre was tapping their leaders' phones prior to the assembly elections.
The then home minister R Ramalinga Reddy had said the BJP central leadership had asked central investigating agencies to tap the phones of the Karnataka Congress leaders and ministers to know their strategy for the May 2018 hustings.
In 2016, the incumbent CM and then JD(S) opposition leader H D Kumaraswamy had claimed that the Congress government was tapping his phone for revealing the Hublot watch scandal involving Siddaramaiah.
