Wednesday, December 22 2004 22:41 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) today (Dec 22, 2004) said there appeared to be "conspiracy to malign" the Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat through the sting operation which captured controversial party MLA Madhu Srivastava purportedly saying that key witness in Best Bakery case Zaheera Sheikh was paid Rs 18 lakh to turn hostile.

"The Congress Corporator shown in the video tape had won against the BJP and could be made to say anything. It is for the courts to see it but it appears to be a conspiracy to malign the Modi Government," BJP Parliamentary party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters in New Delhi.

He, however, said he had not seen the video tape shot by 'Tehelka'.