Lucknow:
In a new twist in the Varun Gandhi hate speech controversy, Uttar Pradesh police sources say the voice on the hate speech CDs given to them matches with the voice of Varun Gandhi taken from his public meetings.
The voice samples were tested in a laboratory in Chandigarh. Varun had made two alleged hate speeches in his constituency Pilibhit and another in Deshnagar near there.
The Uttar Pradesh government had invoked the National Security Act on Varun but the Supreme Court had ruled against it.
Now, with this evidence, the police say they can now file a chargesheet against him.
Meanwhile, Varun's mother Maneka Gandhi has said that the police claims about Varun's CD will be contested in court.
On Saturday, his mother Maneka Gandhi said Varun should not be made a scapegoat for the BJP's poll debacle. She was speaking at the BJP's national executive meet in New Delhi.
Launching a strong defence of her son, Maneka alleged that those who lost the elections were wrongly blaming their defeat on Varun's speeches.
In an apparent reference to chief poll strategist and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Arun Jaitley, she alleged he was not accessible even on the phone and was mainly involved in planting stories in the media.
She sought to draw a contrast between his way of functioning to that of his predecessor late Pramod Mahajan, who she said enquired about the day-to-day progress of the candidates.
The MP from Aonla praised the Uttar Pradesh unit of the party but said it failed to produce results as the election in-charge "did not work at all".
She claimed the exit of Kalyan Singh from the party was a big loss and led to the defeat of leaders like Santosh Gangwar, who lost from Bareilly.
Maneka criticised the party's rigid stand on giving the ticket to Ashok Pradhan from Bulandshahr which had triggered Kalyan Singh's decision to quit.
Maneka demanded that those responsible for the defeat be taken to task.
On attacks that Varun's alleged hate speeches had led to polarisation of votes on communal lines, she claimed that Muslims decided to vote for whichever party that could defeat the BJP and realised it was the Congress.
Some party leaders felt that Muslim votes were not the BJP's core constituency and should not be seen as a reason for the defeat.
She alleged that the main reasons for the party's dismal performance were not being examined honestly.
Maneka attributed the defeat to late distribution of tickets.
Varun, a first-time MP from Pilibhit, was the target of attack by BJP leaders Shahnawaz Hussain and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi at the office bearers meeting yesterday. The duo contended that the BJP lost several seats in Uttar Pradesh due to polarisation of votes after Varun's speeches.
Varun was also present at the national executive meeting while she spoke.