Gadkari insists no one snooped on him, but is that true

As Gadkari runs all the things he said aloud in the privacy of his house through his head, one conjecture doing the rounds is that it was the previous government.

Gadkari insists no one snooped on him, but is that true
With a sniffle of our own, we thought that Nitin Gadkari was down with a bout of viral after catching a monsoon bug. It turns out that the buzz is about a different kind of critter being found in his house: electronic snooping devices. The transport minister has dismissed the claim. So that’s all there should be to it. After all, it hardly makes sense to bang on about a person being eavesdropped upon when that very person denies it. But since one set of FoGs — Friends of Gadkari — continues to insist that the minister’s residence was indeed bugged, it leads us to wonder that if bugs of the nongarden variety were found in his residence, who was doing the listening? As Gadkari runs all the things he said aloud in the privacy of his house through his head, one conjecture doing the rounds is that it was the previous government.

High on the “What the…!” quotient as this may be, there is another school of thought which proposes that one of the FoGs may have planted the bugs. Listening in on your colleagues or friends isn’t unheard of. But whatever the truth is about Gadkari’s bugs, there’s one thing we can be certain of: folks in New Delhi will be more circumspect about what they utter. Or, if they’re smart, they’ll talk about things they want real or imagined nosy parkers to hear them saying. Make that eary parkers.
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