THE bugging of Pranab Mukherjee’s office has sent Ministers and bureaucrats into a tizzy. Many of them do not have to buy the high-end mobile phones in vogue nowadays – they get iPhones and Blackberrys as gifts from corporate houses or their rich constituents. Apparently, Ministers with important portfolios and bureaucrats in key ministries who have accepted and are using such gifts are now in a quandary as there is a distinct possibility of their phones having been bugged by those who bestowed them. If this is true, it will not be surprising if, in days to come, a new Pandora’s box is opened over this method of bugging politicians and bureaucrats. Meanwhile, a gifted mobile phone is bound to be regarded with suspicion.
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