Ashok Gehlot tapped the phone of Sachin Pilot; Here’s why

How did the conversations go viral?

According to the confession of the former OSD, he revealed that contrary to what he had previously stated, he did not obtain those audio recordings from social media. This is not the truth. While addressing the press conference, he revealed that he himself gave that audio clips to media using his phone number.

In those clips, a conspiracy was hatched to bring down the government by poaching the MLAs. On July 16, 2020, Ashok Gehlot visited Fairmount Hotel, where all the rebel leaders were kept. After one hour when the CM left, he called Lokesh Sharma through PSO Ramniwas, and asked to come to the CMs Residence.

After coming to the house, Ashok Gehlot allegedly handed him the pen drive and paper which contained the conversation between Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Late MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma, and Sanjay Jain. Who were allegedly planning to topple the government.

Later sharma further emphasized, that he was asked by the ex-cm of Rajasthan to circulate the audio through social media. And he also asked me to circulate this audio clips to media. “I was asked to circulate the audio on social media. I did not receive these audio clips via social media, CM Ashok Gehlot handed them over to me in this pen drive and asked me to circulate them to the media.”said Lokesh Sharma

Wanted to portray the BJP’s hand behind the toppling of the Rajasthan government

He further said that the congress wanted to prove BJP’s hand in this matter, which wasn’t the case at all. In this whole matter, they managed to portray Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as the main accused in this whole matter. And due to ignorance of their grievances, All the MLAs along with Sachin Pilot, and reached the party’s high command.

As soon as Gehlot got to know about it, he kept everyone’s phone on surveillance including that of Sachin Pilot.