Ratan Tata wanted to prevent fresh tapes of intercepted conversations of the lobbyist Niira Radia to come in public, but Supreme Court denied node for it.

Now more Niira Radia tapes are out and in public. This time there are 800 more tapes and Delhi based Outlook magazine has started publishing new audios of Niira Radia on its website phase wise.

Some interesting things are coming out from this fresh lot of conversation.

-Niira Says Manmohan Singh wanter Raja in cabinet but not Balu.

-Niira says Karunanidhi wanted Raja in cabinet because he was Dalit.

-Tarun Das told Niira that Sunil Mittal was lobbying against Raja becoming Telecom minister. Niira says Sunil Mittal was too arrogant with Raja.

– In one conversation with an unidentified associate in the run-up to cabinet formation in May 2009, Radia says: “Congress ne tho statement thank god issue karva diya. Barkha ne karvaliya usay. It is not about individuals. (Thank god, the Congress has got a statement issued. Barkha got it done.”)

-To which the person at the other end responds: “Haan woh to maine dekh liya. Aa gya na Manish Tewari ka. (Yes, I saw the Congress spokesman’s statement.)”

-A month later, the columnist Vir Sanghvi recites to Radia (a lobbyist for Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries), the tone and tenor of his Sunday Hindustan Times column on the gas dispute.

-“I’ve dressed it up as a piece about how public will not stand for resources being cornered, how we’re creating a new list of oligarchs,” says Sanghvi.

-“Very nice, lovely, thank you, Vir,” responds Radia.

-In a conversation with her aide Manoj Warrier, Radia gives an indication of getting her main clients, the Tatas and Ambanis, to blacklist the news agency PTI. She then goes on to instruct Warrier not to put this on paper, so as not to give the impression that she is batting for rival news agency UNI.

-In a June 2009 conversation with Noel Tata, discussing media plans for Tata subsidiary Trent, she says: “Which is why I stopped the ‘BusinessWorld’ story and shifted it to ‘Business Today’ because I got the questions I wanted and not the questions that they wanted.”

-“Jehangir… is cleared…Raja is cleared, Raja is cleared,” a distracted Radia purrs to Jehangir Pocha, head of the news channel, NewsX, announcing the inclusion of A. Raja in the UPA-team in a different tape. NewsX’s first headman was Vir Sanghvi.

-“She’s got Chaya Mamaya or whatever her name is. She hasn’t told her the truth that she has been buying ‘Bombay Times’ at a price for her. She is under the impression that Chaya is doing all the great stuff for her which is not true. You tell me how you position ‘Nita Ambani’, let’s move from Bombay Times and Mid-Day”

– In another tape, she issues instructions to an employee on how to manipulate the media in Jammu to generate bad press. When a local official fails to mention the name of the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications in a official release, she says, “Press must put pressure on the SSP to name the telecom operator”.

-“He [Vir Sanghvi] has a series of interviews lined up and he has agreed to ask the questions we asked him to ask. The first one is with Mukesh [Ambani] and Ratan [Tata],” she says in different conversation with an associate.

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