Raipur: Outgoing Chief Minister Ajit Jogi last night (Dec 6, 2003) said the tape purportedly containing his voice alleged by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for bribing its MLAs is "concocted" and "forged" and offered to face any probe in this connection.

Addressing a press conference in Raipur past midnight, Jogi maintained the voice in the tape was not his.

He, however, admitted that he had written a letter to Governor offering party's support to rebel BJP MLAs to form a Government headed by a tribal Chief Minister.

Jogi said he had written the letter after former BJP MLA Virendra Pandey had come and met him at his residence yesterday and sought his support for such a Government.

He said the tape played by Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley was "concocted" and "forged" and asserted it was not his voice in the tape.

Jogi said it was a conspiracy by BJP to defame him.

PTI