New Delhi: Reports of Union minister Nitin Gadkari house being bugged continued to rock Parliament.
Union minister Arun Jaitley said there was a vast difference between fiction and reality and the home minister will make a statement.
The leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge also raised the issue. “We have come across the report of the bugging of Mr Gadkari’s residence. Even in Gujarat when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the CM of the state phones of hundreds of officials and politicians were tapped. We want the government to tell us how many other Union ministers are under surveillance,” said Mr Kharge.
The BJP MPs sought to counter the claims of Mr Kharge by citing the alleged findings of suspected bugging devices in the office of Pranab Mukherjee when he was the finance minister.
Replying to the issue raised by Mr Kharge, Rajnath Singh said that the report of the listening devices found in Mr Gadkari’s bedroom was “baseless”.
