JOIN USThe conversations, all part of an officially sanctioned tapping, indicates involvement of corporate houses, media and politicians ganging up to bring DMK leader and former telecom minister A Raja into the helm of affairs of Telecom Ministry.
The intercepts also give fresh insight into the working of the Kenya-born British lobbyist, for her clients Tatas and Ambanis, for both telecommunication as well as the gas sector by asking media houses to run a particular story.
There was a dispute between distribution of KG Basin Gas among the Ambani brothers-Mukesh and Anil.
While talking to G Ganapathy Subramanian of “The Economic Times” on the gas dispute, Radia says: “It is going out of Murli’s (Petroleum Minister Murli Deora) hands. It doesn’t really matter because it is only on the prime minister’s instructions that the utilisation policy was issued in the first place.
She also says, “And it is not Murli Deora. It has to do with Anil Ambani and their people and Amar Singh (former Samajwadi MP) lobbying for their fertilizer company should be given gas so Anil……Mukesh doesn’t take everything”.
On the day of the Union Budget, Subramanian asks Radia to suggest names for panelists for discussion in studio.
He also says: “If you suggests names to be guests in ET Now, that will be good because .... one, that there will be joint programming with Times Now, that will have little more of mileage ... and also they will have a better rapport with the people naa.. even though there are different levels, the rapport may not ... at this level it will be good”.