Conspiracy will be unravelled: Fernandes

NEW DELHI, MARCH 24. The former Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, has alleged that the Tehelka expose is a ``conspiracy'' and those behind this will be unmasked as such things can never remain secret.

``Isme kin kin logon ki kya saazish hai, woh samay zaroor bata dega. Yeh cheezein chipi nahi rah sakti (time will definitely tell who are behind this conspiracy. Such things can never remain secret),'' he told Star TV for its `Janata Ki Adalat'' programme.

From the time he declared that middlemen and arms dealers would not be allowed inside his Ministry, he knew such a thing would happen some day, a press release from the network quoted Mr. Fernandes as saying.

Seeking to defend the BJP, he said, ``Ek vyakti ne paap kiya to iska matlab yeh nahin ki poori party ne paap kiya (one man committing a sin does not mean the whole party has sinned).''

On Ms. Jaya Jaitly, who resigned as Samata Party president in the wake of the Tehelka expose, Mr. Fernandes said there could be no bigger injustice than dragging her name into the controversy adding that she did not discuss defence deals. Admitting that appointing Mr. R. K. Jain as party treasurer, was a mistake, he said ``we are not into investigating what each person is doing.

Had we known that he is such type of person, he would not have been appointed.''

He said if the intention of the news portal was to clean up and improve the system, the entire 100-hour recording should be made public because no one would believe that the men in the Ministry of Defence, whether in uniform or civilians, were corrupt.

- PTI

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