Champai Soren Alleges Spying by JMM-Congress Govt, Files FIR in Delhi

New Delhi: Ahead of the Jharkhand Assembly polls, former CM and tribal leader Champai Soren has come up with ‘spying charges’ against CM Hemant Soren, the head of the JMM-Congress alliance government in the state.

He has lodged a FIR in a Delhi police station regarding it. In Delhi, two personnel of the Jharkhand special branch, allegedly following Champai Soren for the past five months, have been detained for interrogation.

BJP leader and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is instrumental in getting Champai into the BJP fold, shared the details on Wednesday. Sarma said, “Never in the history of independent India had a sitting chief minister (Hemant Soren) ordered surveillance of his own cabinet colleague. You had heard stories that the late Assam CM ordered my surveillance but there was no evidence at the time.”

“In Champai Soren’s case, two cops of Jharkhand special branch were caught trailing the ex-CM whenever he came to Delhi. These two cops were arrested by Delhi police from the Taj Hotel in the national capital where they had booked a room on the same floor as Champai Soren who was in Delhi a few days ago,” said Sarma.

Champai is to join the BJP on August 30. Interestingly, till he resigns from JMM, he officially continues as Jharkhand water resources minister.

Sarma said the arrested cops had revealed in interrogations that they had been asked by Jharkhand special branch chief to track Champai Soren’s movements since five months and a lot of money is being spent on it.

“A woman had visited these two cops in the Taj Hotel and there may have been a plot to trap Champai Soren,” alleged Sarma.