Patna,(BiharTimes): When the BJP’s Gujarat government is under fire on the charge of snooping former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi has accused the chief minister Nitish Kumar of ordering the tapping of phones of the BJP leaders.

In a statement he said Nitish has “stooped low to the extent” that he has been misusing his powers by ordering tapping of the BJP leaders telephones.

Charging that his own phones are being tapped by the government, SuMo asked how else could his conversations with BJP leaders at Hajipur a couple of days back come to the notice of the chief minister.

He said that the issue of tapping his phone needs to be thoroughly probed and asked under whose order this tapping is going on.

Modi did not stop there. He further alleged that Nitish would himself issue instructions for not giving advertisements to newspapers if they did not highlight news about him or publish his photographs prominently.

The BJP leader also said that Nitish was so publicity hungry that he had even directed delaying payment of advertisement to the media organizations on numerous occasions.

He charged that as the state government has failed repeatedly in the recent months and has been cornered the chief minister is hurling baseless charges against political opponents, especially the BJP. Thus he wants to divert people’s attention from the serious issues.