New Delhi, February 25:
Uttar Pradesh Congress on Saturday gave a new turn to the audio CD controversy involving Amar Singh by demanding the SP general secretary’s arrest and consideration of imposition of President’s Rule in the state. PCC president Salman Khurshid said Amar Singh be arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the wake of the conversations in the CD in view of the statements made by him about ‘give and take’. He said Singh enjoys Cabinet status in UP being Chairman of the State Development Council. Khurshid said Singh could be proceeded against immediately in view of what he has admitted in an interview on the issue of the audio CD. Besides, he said since Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is the state Chief Minister, has also been involved in the conversations in the CD having several controversial exchanges raised serious questions of governance as what has been talked about was courts and judges. “If this is not the violation of the Constitution, then what is it?,” he asked adding that the development straightaway brings to the fore Article 356. At the same time, he said the issue has to be deliberated and decided by those concerned. A leading television channel had earlier said it had audio CDs of his alleged conversations with a host of persons including one with Mulayam Singh Yadav in which the ‘removal’ of a High Court judge figures. Singh said the tape could be ‘doctored, morphed and fabricated’.
