In a desperate bid to catch media attention, Sushma Swaraj, the media manager of Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat for the presidential poll, alleged that telephones of S S Ahluwalia, Digvijay Singh and her own are being tapped.
Addressing a news conference, she alleged that this has been going on since July 4.
"Telephones are tapped of anti-national people, but the Congress government has ordered our phones to be tapped because all of us are involved in the campaign for Shekhawatji. I tried to contact home, but the person on the other side said it was a police station. This was done in the presence of Gopinath Mundeji. Sometimes, I got the answer that the number does not exist. Then I used Munde's phone to contact home," she said.
Ahulwalia, who was present at the press meet, alleged that first he thought this was his misunderstanding, but later on he realised that it was phone tapping.
"We are now planning to write letters to CMD of Delhi telephones, minister for communications and also to the chief election commissioner to ensure that this does not happen," Swaraj said.
Swaraj confirmed that Shekhawat has not complained about telephone tapping so far.
Asked if the vice president was happy about releasing of documents against Pratibha Patil in the form of a calendar on Tuesday, she said that Shekhawat refused to associate himself with the release of the document.
She denied having given a specific date for releasing personal documents of Shekhawat particularly his assessts when a newsman asked her about her promise to do so last week.
She expressed surprise at the claim of Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, minister for parliamentary affairs, that Shekhawat was misusing the name of vice president.
"He is the vice president of India till August 18 and Dasmunsi should know this," she said.