Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh has said the phones of non-BJP leaders in Maharashtra were tapped during the Maharashtra assembly elections and a probe will be ordered into the serious charges. Now Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has said a senior BJP minister of the previous government had also warned him that his phone was being tapped.
In a tweet on Friday, Sanjay Raut said, "Your phone is being tapped. This was told to me by a senior BJP minister earlier. I told him whoever wishes to listen to my conversations is free to do so. I am a disciple of Balasaheb Thackeray, I don't do anything secretly."
After allegations that the phones of non-BJP leaders in Maharashtra were tapped during the Maharashtra assembly elections, sources say the Uddhav Thackeray government has ordered a probe into the charges.
As per reports, phones of leaders such as NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray were also being tapped apart from that of Sanjay Raut. The phone tapping also went on even after the elections were over and when the negotiations between the parties went on for months before NCP, Shiv Sena and Congress finally entered a coalition.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday alleged that the previous Devendra Fadnavis dispensation misused government machinery to tap the phones of opposition leaders.
Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Deshmukh said the cyber cell of the state police department has been directed to look into the complaints of phone-tapping and snooping of leaders who were then in the opposition.(With inputs from Mustafa Shaikh)