'BJP men behind Tehelka expose'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 28. The Congress MP, Mr. Eduardo Faleiro, today said by suspending the Home Ministry Director, Mr. Thomas Mathew, in connection with the Tehelka expose, the Government was going to ``absurd lengths'' to cover up the disclosures and conspiracy behind it.

In a statement here, Mr. Faleiro, demanded that the Government state its policy towards implementation and enforcement of Civil Services Rules without any ``bias or discrimination''. The rules were broken with impunity by several officers, including the Home Minister, who attended RSS camps during the last two years.

He said, senior scientists, academics and other government servants too participated in functions where awards were given to them by RSS organisations. ``Why no action is taken against them but only comparative junior officers like Mr. Mathew are penalised?'' Referring to the Tehelka tapes, Mr. Faleiro said as per available indications, they were the result of a conspiracy by a section of the ruling party dissatisfied with the present regime.

``Any impartial enquiry, judicial or otherwise, will confirm this,'' he said adding that such a probe should examine the nexus between the disclosures in the Tehelka tapes and the income tax raids last July at the residence of former Samata Party president, Ms. Jaya Jaitly, ostensibly in connection with the match-fixing scandal but which were aborted on instructions ``from above''.

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