mumbaiUpdated: Jan 25, 2020 00:29 ISTAmid the row over allegations of phone tapping during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule in Maharashtra, the state police began a probe into the claims. Minister of state for home (Deepak Kesarkar) was from the Shiv Sena. “Digvijayji had said that the phones of Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena leaders were tapped by the government during elections and even during the formation of the three-party government. As a minister of state, my powers were very limited and I was in charge of rural part of the state,” he said. Meanwhile, Raut tweeted on Friday: “A senior BJP minister had told me that my phone was being tapped.

Source: Hindustan Times January 24, 2020 18:56 UTC