New Delhi, July 17 (TIWN) As the last word is yet to be said on the political crisis faced by the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan, the Congress on Friday flayed the BJP for "hatching a conspiracy" to bring down the party's government in the desert state.

The Congress claim was made in the wake of release of three audio clips in which Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is allegedly talking with Congress MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma and BJP leader Sanjay Jain of Jaipur on the issue of toppling the Gehlot government. The SOG in Rajasthan has since booked the three in the case.

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill told IANS: “These audio tapes prove that even during the lockdown, the BJP was hatching a conspiracy to bring down the Congress government in the state, instead of focusing on how to tackle the coronavirus in the country.”

“The BJP central leadership is the main accused in this entire episode as the design, infrastructure and money power have been provided from the BJP warehouse built to lure and stock opposition MLAs,” Shergill remarked.

He said that with the release of the audio tapes, two things are clear — as far as BJP is concerned, old habits die hard; and secondly, its leaders cannot give up their addiction to undertake ‘Operation Kamal’ every year in some or the other state.

The Congress has claimed that the audio tapes are the direct proof of the BJP’s “now-failed sinister plan” and their involvement in the bid to hijack the Congress government.