SIT’s Gujarat riot submission: Ahmed Patel a front for Sonia, says BJP; Even the dead not spared, is Cong’s retort | India News

NEW DELHI: It is a full-blown confrontation between the Congress and the BJP after an SIT probing the 2002 Gujarat riots stated in courtroom {that a} conspiracy to malign the state’s and Narendra Modi’s picture was hatched on the behest of late Congress chief Ahmed Patel.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra stated that Patel was actually a entrance for Sonia Gandhi who hatched and funded a plot to finish the political profession of then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.
The Congress refuted the cost, instantly focusing on PM Modi. “The prime minister’s political vendetta machine clearly doesn’t even spare the departed who had been his political adversaries,” learn a press release by get together spokesperson Jairam Ramesh. It accused the SIT of appearing on orders of its “political masters.”
The SIT affidavit additionally accused activist Teesta Setalvad of conniving with the Congress to implicate Modi and the BJP.
“Setalvad held a gathering with Ahmed Patel and obtained Rs 5 lakh on the first occasion. Two days later, they met on the Circuit Home at Shahibaug in Ahmedabad, the place she obtained Rs 25 lakh extra from Patel,” it stated. The SIT additionally claimed that Setalvad and others met different political leaders of the Congress later “to implicate senior leaders of the BJP authorities in Gujarat”.
Citing the SIT affidavit, BJP’s Patra stated the Congress seems to be conserving varied sorts of denials prepared and releasing them by altering dates.
“We would like Sonia Gandhi to carry a press convention and deal with the nation as to why she was conspiring towards Modi,” he stated.
She hatched a conspiracy to malign Gujarat and nook Modi with an purpose to break him and the BJP to advertise her son Rahul Gandhi, Patra claimed.
Patra famous that Setalvad, who has been pursuing Gujarat riots instances, was given Padma Shri and in addition made a member of the Nationwide Advisory Council when the Congress-led UPA was in energy. Sonia Gandhi was behind this as she was completely satisfied together with her work, he alleged.
“Patel is only a title. The driving drive behind this conspiracy was Sonia Gandhi,” he claimed.
Defending Patel, the Congress claimed that the costs levelled towards him are a part of Modi’s “systematic technique to absolve himself of any duty for communal carnage” unleashed when he was the chief minister.
Jairam Ramesh’s assertion additionally referred to the well-known ‘rajdharma’ comment of former PM the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee “It was his (Modi’s) unwillingness and incapacity to manage this carnage that led the then Prime Minister of India Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma,” it stated.