39. Poaching conversation with AAPs Sanjay Singh 

Former Congress MLA threatens to leak 'poaching' conversation with AAP's Sanjay Singh 

By MAIL TODAY BUREAU

PUBLISHED: 23:40 GMT, 12 March 2015 | UPDATED: 23:40 GMT, 12 March 2015

An embattled Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is staring at fresh trouble after former Congress MLA Asif Mohammad Khan on Thursday threatened to make public the conversation between him and AAP leader Sanjay Singh.

As the Congress leader refused to backtrack, Singh admitted meeting Khan but denied that he had offered a ministerial berth in lieu of the latter’s support.

The purported recording pertains to the conversation wherein Singh had tried to ‘poach’ Khan to form the government in Delhi last year. 

Former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Rajesh Garg, who had accused Arvind Kejriwal of trying to poach Congress MLAs, claimed to have received a threat call from an AAP supporter

In another development, former AAP MLA Rajesh Garg, who had accused Kejriwal of trying to steal Congress MLAs, claimed to have received a threat call from “AAP supporter”, adding the caller told him not to take the matter forward. 

“Let it stay like this. I am an Aam Aadmi Party fan. You are clever enough, which is why I am saying. I will do nothing. Only time will say what will happen. Don’t take the matter ahead,” according to the conversation narrated by Garg who said the call was from an international number. 

“I have recorded it and sent a copy to the police,” he added. 

Sanjay Singh said: “I did meet him after meeting senior BJP leaders. He claimed that they (the BJP) had offered the post of deputy chief minister and ministerial berths to his camp,” Singh said. 

However, Khan reiterated his charges. 

“He (Singh) says that he did not indulge in horse trading. I had a meeting with Manish Sisodia and two meetings with Sanjay Singh in Noida. He never offered me money, but proposed a ministerial berth and chairmanship of different boards to five MLAs in lieu of support,” the former Okhla legislator claimed. 

“I will certainly make the evidence public. Now, Sanjay Singh has accepted that he met me,” he said, adding that Singh also instructed him not to make the conversations public till anything concrete happened. 

Khan said: “Singh said that if you are quitting the party... we are aware that contesting polls is an expensive affair. Even on that front, we will think about it. He also said that the conversation should not go out of the room because some senior AAP leaders do not want to take Congress support in forming the government.” 

Meanwhile, Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay accused AAP of indulging in “immoral practices” for grabbing power in Delhi. He claimed that the Kejriwal-Garg conversation had exposed AAP.

He said: “It is surprising that AAP and its leaders who relied on sting operations to expose corruption are now scared of getting the audio recording examined. The AAP leaders are not ready to accept the procedure under law when their turn has come.” 

Demand for spy gizmos on the rise

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A day after it came to light that ‘sting king’ Arvind Kejriwal has himself been stung in a video that accuses him of trying to poach six Congress MLAs, Mail Today took a round of Delhi’s famous electronics markets to see the range of spying gizmos available in the market. 

Mail Today went to Palika Bazar, Gaffar Market, Nehru Place and other electronics markets and found a range of spy cameras easily available for anything between Rs 800 and Rs 20,000. 

On display were cameras with as much as 20 mega pixels with both audio and video recording facility and good memory for Rs 10,000. 

A dealer also showed “good quality camera” within the Rs 2,000 range. 

And they come in various shapes and sizes – pens, buttons, key chains and pen drives. But the “latest” spy camera designs are sunglasses and SIM cards. 

“You can take a pen or key ring or even watches. But a sunglass is unique. It has two cameras and additional audio device that records all activities. Moreover, it has good focus,” said a shopkeeper at Palika Bazaar. 

And all this for just Rs 1,800. 

Another dealer at Palika couldn’t stop raving about the new ‘SIM camera’. It's a tiny box, about the size of a matchbox, and its applications “have no limit but one’s imagination”. 

“One can put a mobile SIM card inside it and call on the number to activate it. It records video and audio and sends it to the number from where one is calling,” said a shopkeeper. 

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