Ready for narco test, says Harish Rawat on 2nd sting video
May 09, 2016  11:26
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Uttarakhand crisis: Harish Rawat says he is ready for a narco analysis after a second sting video surfaces ahead of the floor test in the state assembly today.

Ahead of the May 10 trust vote in Uttarakhand, a new purported sting video targeting deposed Chief Minister Harish Rawat emerged on Sunday, prompting the Bharatiya Janata Party to accuse him of trying to "buy" legislators.

As the political fight over the Uttarakhand crisis escalated, Rawat accused the National  Democratic Alliance government and the Bharatiya Janata Party of indulging in "politics of blackmail" and creating "unrest" in the hill state. He also alleged that the Congress members of Legislative Assembly were being threatened and their phones tapped by central agencies.

A purported sting video targeting Rawat which allegedly showed a conversation between rebel Congress MLA Harak Singh Rawat and Congress legislator Madan Singh Bisht was released by a private news channel in Delhi.

Bisht is purported to have said in the video that Harish Rawat was giving the money he had earned from mining to his MLAs to keep his flock together.

BJP leader Bhagat Singh Koshyari alleged that the video showed that Harish Rawat was "himself involved in horse-trading".

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