Friday, December 30 2005 15:19 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Congress today (Dec 30, 2005) rejected Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's charge that Sonia Gandhi had ordered tapping of telephones of Samajwadi Party leaders.

"It is baseless and unwarranted allegation. It has become a habit of Mulayam Singh Yadav and his alter-ego Amar Singh to make such dramatic statements and drag the Congress party and its President (Sonia Gandhi) into controversies to extract cheap publicity", Party Spokesman Anand Sharma told sources telephonically.

At a press conference in Lucknow today, the SP chief Yadav blamed Congress chief Gandhi of ordering telephone tapping as part of moves to topple his government.