Novel Delhi: The Congress on Saturday said the “roguish” and “manufactured” allegations by the Gujarat Police against its behind leader Ahmed Patel had been fragment of Top Minister Narendra Modi’s “systematic strategy” to absolve himself of any duty for the communal carnage in 2002.
The Congress’ rebuttal got right here after the Gujarat Police on Friday adverse activist Teesta Setalvad’s bail utility. In an affidavit before the periods court docket, the Particular Investigation Personnel claimed she used to be fragment of a “greater conspiracy” applied at the behest of behind Congress leader Patel to receive the BJP government in the assert brushed aside after the 2002 riots.
In an announcement, Congress Customary Secretary Jairam Ramesh said the receive collectively “categorically refutes the roguish charges manufactured” against the behind Ahmed Patel.
“This is fragment of the Top Minister’s systematic draw to absolve himself of any duty for the communal carnage unleashed when he used to be chief minister of Gujarat in 2002,” he said.
“It used to be his (Modi’s) unwillingness and incapacity to alter this carnage that had led the then Top Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his ‘raj dharma’.”
The prime minister’s “political vendetta machine” clearly does no longer even spare the departed who had been his political adversaries, the Congress authorized secretary said.
“This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and ought to quiet take a seat wherever it is miles told to. All of us know the draw an earlier SIT chief used to be rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘natty chit’ to the chief minister,” Ramesh said.
He said giving judgment by the press, in an ongoing judicial job, by “puppet investigative agencies who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings”, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s tactics for years.
“This is nothing nonetheless one other example of the an identical with the added object of vilifying a deceased particular person since he is unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies,” Ramesh said.
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