BJP tapping phones of senior leaders in MP: Congress

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress on Friday charged the state BJP government with tapping telephones of its party leaders. A complaint regarding phones being tapped would be filed with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and state Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, Congress state unit media department chairman Manak Agrawal said in a statement in Bhopal.

The phone calls of Congress leaders were being tapped secretly in Bhopal, Indore, Khargone, Jhabua, Dhar and Ujjain, he alleged.

It was an attempt to "keep an eye on political activities of the Congress," he said.

A Congress leader alleged that the phone calls were being tapped secretly in Bhopal, Indore, Khargone, Jhabua, Dhar and Ujjain.

"The dictatorial mentality of the state government was becoming increasingly obvious with these activities, in view of the next year's Assembly elections," Agrawal said.

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