BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday dismissed Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde''s explanation on the Jaitley phone tapping issue, saying the government has all the wherewithal to find out who was behind it.

Expressing dissatisfaction over the pace of the investigations, Naidu said: "Arrest was made on 14 February and today is 1 March. This kind of thing is not possible without the support of the government. Why is the investigation taking so long, does the government have something to hide?." 

"How do you know the phone was not tapped? Do you have an investigation? If the records were accessed, why couldn''t they also hack the phone records? Some forces are clearly at work - this is very serious. What are the steps taken to prevent such abuse?" he asks. 

Shinde earlier clarified that Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley''s phone was not tapped, but that someone was trying to access his call records.