BRS wants thorough probe into phone tapping case, not target select individuals

Bharat Rashtra Samithi has alleged that the ruling Congress party in Telangana has utilised the Tukkuguda public meeting, organised by spending ₹100 crore, only to lash out at former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and level allegations about phone tapping. Stating that the Congress Government was running a web series on phone tapping, BRS leader Manne Krishank said in Hyderabad on Monday that it was the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who had stressed the need for phone tapping, when he was leading the Government, for national security. Mr. Krishnak played a video clipping of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh justifying phone tapping in the world “we live in” for national security and allaying apprehensions of the corporate and other sections. Addressing a press conference, he said Sonia Gandhi was the Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance Government and Rahul Gandhi was an MP but they were speaking nonsense about phone tapping forgetting the fact that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had made it clear that the details of phone tapping could not be revealed or made public. Accusing the Congress Government in the State of trying to shield some individuals in the phone tapping case, the BRS leader said there was a need for a thorough probe into the issue by summoning the authorities of TRAI and top police officials for examination.