BJP demands answers from Rawat on sting CD

“It is a confession by Rawat. By confirming that the CD features him in conversation with a journalist, Rawat has confessed to the crime of trying to strike a money deal to buy MLAs who had rebelled against him,” State BJP spokesman Munna Singh Chauhan said.

“If this was the fact, why was he trying to mislead the people of Uttarakhand for the last 35 days by calling the CD false, fake and doctored? He must explain to people why he initially said that the face in the CD and the voice in it were not his,” he said.

Reminding Rawat of his statement at a press conference soon after the sting CD controversy broke out that the credentials of the journalist who had made the sting video were always under a ‘cloud of suspicion’, the BJP leader said the former chief minister’s ‘confessional remark’ that a meeting did take place between him and the scribe proves that his motive was clear – he was going to strike a deal to buy support of disgruntled MLAs of his party.

“Circumstantial evidences like the then CM’s visit in a government chopper to the VIP lounge of Jollygrant airport’s hangar for a meeting with a journalist whose reputation according to his own statement was under a cloud, suggest that Rawat was knowingly going to strike a deal to buy disgruntled MLAs,” Chauhan said. 

When told that Rawat has expressed his readiness to be jailed if he had committed any wrong, Chauhan said he will be if he is found guilty by the court.