Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Thursday claimed that senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan made attempts to persuade him to switch ranks and join the camp of social activists. Mr Singh stated that he would be submitting a “CD” of the conversation with Mr Bhushan to the Tughlaq Road police station on Thursday evening.
“Today, Prashant Bhushan called me and told me not to fall prey to an agenda and to join them to fight for the Lokpal,” Mr Singh told reporters during a press conference at his residence.
Mr Singh stated that the phone call was made on the mobile phone of his personal assistant Tarun Goel, which he recorded and would submit to the police. Mr Singh gave the mobile numbers and landline numbers from which he had got missed calls and the one on the mobile phone of his personal assistant.
Mr Singh also claimed that he was told by Mr Bhushan that even unsigned complaints on the letter head of India Against Corruption are enquired into by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Mr Singh said that he would ask finance minister Pranab Mukherjee how the ED could take cognisance of anonymous complaints.
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Gamlin is new CM of Arunachal
age correspondent
Guwahati
May 5: In a hurriedly taken decision, Arunachal Pradesh governor J.J. Singh on Thursday night administered the oath of offices to newly-elected leader of Congress Legislative Party Jarbom Gamlin as new chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh.
Mr Gamlin who was the power minister in the late Dorjee Khandu government was also the member of 13th Lok Sabha and was considered to be the close confident late chief minister.
Earlier, Congress legislators in a resolution on Thursday authorised Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi to choose a successor to Dorjee Khandu, who was killed in a helicopter crash, along with 4 others, in Tawang district on Saturday.
The swearing ceremony started at Raj Bhawan at about 10 pm in which most of the ruling party legislators were present.