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Bengaluru: Leaked audio clips aired by News18 Kannada have put Bengaluru Police commissioner Bhaskar Rao under the scanner.

In the unverified clips, which were supposedly recorded six months ago, Rao was purportedly speaking to a power broker named Faraz to get himself appointed the commissioner through a Congress pull, instead of Alok Kumar, who was being favoured by then-CM H.D. Kumaraswamy despite being the junior-most ADGP-rank officer.

Here is the full transcript of the clips, which have also turned up the heat on the new B.S. Yediyurappa-headed BJP government in Karnataka:

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CLIP 1

Faraz: Sir, I have been to Delhi in the morning. Ahmed Sahab could not come

yesterday because he fell sick. Venugopal is in Bangalore…Ahmed is in a

meeting with Bhupinder Hooda. Once he finishes that meeting I

will meet him and directly tell him.

Rao: Excellent, excellent… CM is going back to Delhi tomorrow.

Faraz: Tomorrow we will meet with Rahul ji. Mauka hai, whichever is the

best option, we will see.

Rao: Will he come to meet AP (Ahmed Patel) sahab?

Faraz: My thing is that AP sahab in another two days will be in Bengaluru to

process the expansion jo ho raha hai…all that will be decided together.

Bulva doonga.

CLIP 2

Rao: Sorry I missed your call, Faraz.

Faraz: No problem, sir. Maine baat ki sahab se, and explained to him everything

in detail from Venugopal asking you to contest, from you going to Kaushal

Vidhyarthi, to your plans for Seva Dal and everything. I told him that he

wanted to resign and take over and come into the organisation very subtly.

Maine bhi advise kiya and others also advised that he has more years of

service… Maine saara explain kiya aur maine kaha ki Priyanka ji ko milne

ka time lein kya. Unka mood accha tha aaj aur Kumaraswamy ka aana… probably

they may meet Rahul ji. I told them about this…commissioner ka…Agar ek

saal woh reh jayenge, sarkar girti bhi hai to apna ek aadmi hai Rajeevan. He

knows everything… he knows mudda kya hai… these miscellaneous talks… He

first asked me why did you come… you should have stayed there in Bengaluru… Venugopal is there. I just had to lie to him that…nahi kuch kaam tha aur aa gaya…kal chala jaoonga wapas.

He (Ahmed Patel) is in very good books of his (Kumaraswamy’s) father (H.D.

Deve Gowda)… I told him (Ahmed Patel) agar aap halke se bol denge toh

oblige kar denge...mana nahi karenge aapko. Toh he said theek hai main bol

doonga…This is not the right time…do teen din guzarne do…Because if

they say teen chaar din…then it will become from four-five days to eight

days, tab tak Hamada yahan kisiko commit kar diya toh problem ho

jayega… That’s why I told him that sir, abhi woh change karne wale hain… He

(Kumaraswamy) is selecting the candidate… He (Ahmed Patel) said ek kaam

karo, Venugopal ko bol dena bolne ke liye that na kare, aur mera naam le ke bol

dena. Unhone kaha mera naam leke bol dena. Main jhooth toh nahi bol

sakta Venugopal ko. Now with confidence I can say that Ahmed sahab ne kaha

hai aap Kumaraswamy ko bol dijiye ki abhi select na kare. Maine kaha theek

hai sir, main bol deta hoon. Bas utni baat sunni thi mujhe, kal subah aake

Venugopal ko suna deta hoon yeh baat.

Rao: Tab toh bahut lambi baat hui hai…

Faraz: Haan sir, lamba baat hua sir, I was with him since evening… Toh

abhi roza saath main khol diye… Then I told him this… Yeh badi baat hai

sir. Chaar paanch din yeh baat kholna sahi nahi hoga, where there are other

issues going on, me telling him will not be nice. That is when I told him

that chaar-paanch din main select kar denge kisiko….commit kar denge.

Rao: Chaar-paanch din matlab…aaj se…

Faraz: Venugopal ji ko bol do woh Kumaraswamy ji ko bol denge.

Rao: Achha…that’s very good.

CLIP 3

Faraz: I am in AICC sir. Madam has come to AICC after a very long time. I am

finishing up from here sir, I am wrapping up. I will call you in the next ten

minutes sir.

Rao: Main ek DGP ke meeting main jaake… Shall I call you at 12.30?

Faraz: Done, sir. I will be done in the next ten minutes sir. You call me

sir, I will be done by then.

Rao: 12.30?

Faraz: Done, sir. Madam actually has come to AICC after many years for a

meeting, so she had a meeting for all the office-bearers.

Rao: Senior Madam?

Faraz: Haan. Senior madam. Unki meeting thi… (unclear)

Rao: Oh that’s why, yesterday also it was very late night for you…

Faraz: Yes sir, woh Pondicherry ke CM aa gaye the, main batata hoon aapko,

everything went positive.

Rao: Isko positive karana hi hai, apne haath main lena hi hai…because sab

kuch unke haath main jaa raha hai.

Faraz: Kal main uske paas gaya sir, I went inside and explained to him

everything, jo jo possible hai… I had already briefed him, and for the

second time, I explained to him how Venugopal ji considered you for Bengaluru

South and that you are a Congressman at heart… How you wanted to put your

papers down and join the party and how I myself suggested to you that

this is not the time sir. Let one year pass by. He (Ahmed Patel) showed me

a thumbs-up, maane physically unhone thumbs-up dikhaya and he said… beta,

commissioner of police banoonga unko. These were his words. Narayanaswamy

wait kar rahe they…Pondicherry ke CM… I said I will take his leave

… Kuch nahi sir, Ahmed Patel ka itna bolna is a very big thing.

Rao: Great! This is great.

Faraz: I have to go to him today… And I will speak to elaborately because

the Pondicherry CM was waiting… thumbs-up dikhaaye aur chaar mahine baad

hundred per cent banaoonga bolne ke liye aur CM ke saath coordinate karne ke

liye bol doonga…

Rao: Chaar mahine ke baad ka argument aap lo hi mat, kyunki chaar mahine

baad nobody can be removed for one year. That fellow (Alok Kumar) will go to

court because government of India regulations are very, very strict. Anybody

posted in an executive post cannot be removed for one year. Don’t take that

argument at all. First of all that fellow is a very, very junior fellow. Four

years junior. Cadre ka baaja baj jayega. We need a lot of unrest…

Faraz: Other ADGPs will also have unrest.

Rao: Yeah…Sarkaar ki faltu badnaami hogi and this fellow has more

allegations. Isi aadmi ke upar mein yeh CM allegation kiya tha lottery ka

paisa khaaya karke…Inquiry chal raha hai abhi…CBI ka inquiry chal

kar raha hai abhi… He can’t even do that…and zabardasti karke it will only

be an embarrassment to the entire coalition government.

Faraz: CBI inquiry is still in progress, sir?

Rao: Haan. CBI has not yet closed it. Iske upar CBI inquiry chal raha

hai. Agar woh bole hamara khaas aadmi Alok Kumar hai…arre, uske upar

toh CBI inquiry chal raha, aur kyon fajiti kar rahe hain boldenge toh baat

khatam ho jayega wahin par. Moreover, kya hai na saara posting unka hi

hai, ek aadmi bolo jo Congress ka ho?

Faraz: Nobody, sir.

Rao: You are sitting in majority, boss.

Faraz: And whoever they wanted, Revanna played spoilsport everywhere.

Rao: Haan, ismein fortunately I have got both Revanna and big man’s (Deve Gowda)

support also. Yehi (Kumaraswamy) hai jo hai iske (Alok Kumar) peeche laga hua

hai. Aur kuch nahin hai. AP sahab bol diye toh 100 per cent ho jayega… yeh keh

dein ki tumhare bahut log hain, hamara aadmi ko rakho.

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