"If the Chief Minister has even an iota of moral courage left in him, he should come to Gandhi Park or any other public place and debate the sting operation with me before the people and media," he said.
The sting in which Rawat was purportedly shown negotiating a deal to buy back support of disgruntled Congress MLAs during a recent political crisis in the state is being probed by CBI.
If the Chief Minister has to say something in explanation or in his own defence, he should say it in public where the people and the media are free to ask him questions, said Bhatt.
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