Amar Singh to file suit against Ambika Soni

New Delhi: Continuing his campaign to garner support from political leaders in the phone tapping controversy, Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh on Thursday met Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh and said he was planning to file a case against Ambika Soni.

During the meeting, which lasted 15 minutes, he reiterated allegations that his phones were tapped at the behest of Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

He also said he was planning to take the Congress General Secretary, Ambika Soni to court.

Soon after the controversy surfaced last week, Ms Soni, while dismissing the allegations against the Congress chief, had remarked about the contents of the tapes.

"The honourable Chief Minister (UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav) and his fund manager are very tense and very agitated over what they are apprehending has been recorded. Is it like Operation Majnu?" she had asked.

Asked whether the Samajwadi Party, which was backing the UPA government from outside would withdraw its support, Mr Singh said the party had not thought along those lines.

"The primary aim is to expose those who are behind this nefarious scheme," he added.

The SP general secretary, who has met several Opposition leaders on the issue, had on Wednesday held discussions with Left party leaders.

There are reports that the Samajwadi Party may withdraw outside support to the Congress led UPA government at the Centre.

The Congress today threatened to use Right to

Information Act, if the Delhi Police failed to make public, the

details of the CDs seized in the Samajwadi Party phone tapping issue.

The Congress on it's part is demanding disclosure of conversations recorded in the phone-tapping episode to put an end to the controversy in which AICC president Sonia Gandhi is being accused

by Samajwadi Party.

UP Congress chief spokesperson A P Singh here charged SP general secretary Amar Singh with unnecessarily politicising the issue and dragging Sonia Gandhi's name.

He has asked Amar Singh to issue an

unconditional apology for the charges levelled against party president.

A P Singh said people had a right to know the exact contents of the

conversations.

He also said that a party, which believes in minting money at the expense of the people, has no right to insult a person who is known for sacrifice in public and private life.