Maharashtra Congress chief alleges police surveillance

Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Friday accused the State government of placing him under police surveillance, alleging that a policeman in plain clothes entered his bedroom and conducted an inspection.

“This has happened for the third time. On whose orders are we being watched?” Mr. Sapkal asked.

Giving details about the incident while speaking to reporters at Tilak Bhavan, he said, “In the morning, a policeman entered my bedroom and began inspecting and questioning me, asking if I was going to hold a press conference and whether journalists had arrived. When I asked why he entered my room and on whose orders, he said it was under senior officers’ instructions and asked me to talk to them on the phone.”

“Are these actions being carried out on the orders of Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis?” Mr. Sapkal asked, accusing the BJP of spying on the Opposition. “This is part of BJP’s tendency to monitor its opponents – first Pegasus, then phone tapping, and now they’ve reached our bedrooms. But we will not bow down to such intimidation,” he said.