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Amar Singh: King of the sting operation now falls to one

NEW DELHI: Amar Singh lived by the sting, and died by it. The corporate-turned-politician, who scared the world by tapping conversations, fell to a similar operation which exposed his aides on video, buying MPs to back the Congress government in the trust vote in Parliament in 2008. His brazen denial, despite his secretary figuring in these clips, could take him till September 6 but no further. The unravelling of the Singh saga ends an incredible journey where the Thakur from Azamgarh walked the fine edge for so long, proving observers wrong at every step. None saw him going too far when his main weapon became public - taped conversations or stings for every occasion, good or bad. If Vishwanath Chaturvedi alleged corruption against Mulayam Singh Yadav, there was a tape with him bragging to manage the post-retirement life of the adjudicating judge. When Anna Hazare aides cornered the Centre over Lokpal bill, Singh played out a purported conversation which had Shanti Bhushan assuring the SP chief that his son Prashant would manage the concerned Allahabad judge for a handsome fee. Even actor Sanjay Dutt claimed to have stung then law minister H R Bhardwaj on Singhs bidding when he went to meet him about his TADA case. The split with SP in February 2010 came with threats that he had Netajis secrets in his cupboard which he would not reveal.

                                                                                                               
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