Ready to send tapes to US for scrutiny: CM Ashok Gehlot

JAIPUR: Targeting union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat over the audio tapes connected to alleged horse-trading of legislators in Rajasthan, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said these could be sent abroad for forensic tests, if suspicions are raised on laboratories in the country.
“He has been nailed,” said Gehlot, without naming Shekhawat.
“The audio tapes are authentic and we are ready to send these to the USA if they have no faith in Rajasthan or Delhi FSL,” added Gehlot.
The CM asked why the Union minister was not providing his voice samples to probe agencies to establish the authenticity of the audio tapes.
“He should come forward for voice tests. Union ministers, MPs and MLAs' voices are already tested. We speak at so many places that people identify our voices. Still, to save oneself, a person’s first reaction is that ‘it is not my voice’,” said Gehlot, addressing the media.
“They are now threatening. But I am monitoring every move and won’t let them have their way. Truth will triumph,” he said.
Gehlot said he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the horse-trading of MLAs in Rajasthan so that the latter may not claim to be ignorant of what transpired in the state. “I wrote the letter so that when I meet him next time, he may not say that his party did not inform him. I wrote to put it on record.”