Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday asserted that Jharkhand minister Champai Soren had been under 'surveillance' of his own state government police for the last five months.
Speaking to reporters, Sarma said that two sub-inspectors (SIs) of the Special Branch of Jharkhand Police were nabbed by Soren's people in a Delhi hotel while they were keeping an eye on the ex-chief minister.
He said, “Champai Soren has decided to join the BJP. Till the time he does not resign, he is a minister in the Jharkhand government and also the former CM. A week ago he had gone to Delhi and he spent three days there. Again on 26th August, he had gone to Delhi. He stayed at the Taj Hotel during both his visits. But yesterday it came to light that both times he went to Delhi, Jharkhand's Special Branch Police followed him.Two Special Branch personnel who were allegedly following Champai Soren were detained by Delhi police recently. Both the police said that they were instructed to keep an eye on Champai Soren and wherever he traveled in Jharkhand and even in Delhi. I still doubt that maybe his phone is also tapped."
"This is one of the rarest cases of surveillance in Indian politics, we will raise it at the highest levels," Sarma said at a press conference here.
The Assam CM said it is also suspected now that Soren's phones could be tapped and there might have been a plan to 'honey trap' him as a woman had also been meeting the two SIs.
"Soren was put under surveillance even before he was in talks with the BJP," Sarma claimed, referring to the former Jharkhand CM's announcement of joining the saffron party on August 30.
