A day before he quits JMM as well as the post of Minister and joins BJP in Ranchi, former chief minister Champai Soren has slapped ‘spying charges’ on Chief Minister Hemant Soren. 

Hemant Soren who leads the JMM-Congress alliance government in the state, is yet to reply to this serious charge. Delhi police has registered the FIR. 

In this FIR, it has been said that two cops of Jharkhand special branch were nabbed, allegedly to have been following Champai Soren for the past five months. 

They have been detained for questioning. Sharing the details of what he described as the “biggest case of political surveillance on in independent India”, BJP leader and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Gauhati on Wednesday, said.

“Never in the history of independent India had a sitting chief minister (Hemant Soren) ordered surveillance of his own cabinet colleague. You had heard stories that the late Assam CM ordered my surveillance but there was no evidence at the time. In Champai Soren’s case, two Jharkhand special branch were caught trailing the ex-CM whenever he came to Delhi.”

These two cops were arrested by Delhi police from the Taj Hotel in the national capital where they had booked a room on the same floor as Champai Soren who was in Delhi a few days ago,” said Sarma, who is understood to have engineered Champai Soren's switch over to the BJP. 

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Champai will join the BJP on August 30 and till he resigns from JMM; he would remain Jharkhand water minister. 

Sarma said the arrested cops had revealed in interrogations that they had been asked by Jharkhand special branch chief to track Champai Soren's movements. “This spying has been going on for five months and a lot of money is being spent on it. 

Now Champai Soren has lodged an FIR in Delhi and the probe is underway. We have the details of the cops and their photos,” Sarma said, demanding a thorough investigation into the issue. 

Jharkhand BJP is also expected to meet the state governor to demand an investigation into the matter, with Sarma saying Champai's phones could also have been tapped and there's evidence of attempts to even honey trap him.

“A woman had visited these two cops in the Taj Hotel and there may have been a plot to trap Champai Soren,” alleged Sarma accusing the JMM-Congress of shredding the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to privacy.

“The Congress and JMM say they are guardians of the Constitution. Nothing can be farther from the truth,” said Sarma who had earlier last week accompanied Champai to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah paving the way for his BJP entry. 

Champai Soren had visited Delhi a few days ago and stayed at Hotel Taj where Sarma alleged the two spies were detected tracking and photographing him and were later handed over to Delhi police.