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India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New
Delhi,
July
16:
The
BJP
on
Saturday
alleged
that
Congress
president
Sonia
Gandhi
was
the
‘driving
power’
behind
the
‘conspiracy’
to
implicate
the
then
Gujarat
chief
minister
Narendra
Modi
in
the
2002
riots
case
in
the
state.
In
a
press
convention,
celebration
spokesperson
Sambit
Patra
claimed
that
the
late
Ahmed
Patel,
who
was
Gandhi’s
political
adviser
and
a
main
Congress
chief,
was
simply
the
medium
by
which
she
acted
to
destabilise
the
BJP
authorities
in
the
state
and
harm
Prime
Minister
Modi’s
political
profession.
Sonia
Gandhi
ought to
tackle
a
press
convention
on
this,
he
demanded.
president
Sonia
Gandhi
The
ruling
celebration’s
assault
on
her
got here
a
day
after
the
Gujarat
police’s
Particular
Investigation
Workforce
(SIT)
opposed
arrested
activist
Teesta
Setalvad’s
bail
software
and
claimed
in
an
affidavit
earlier than
a
courtroom
that
she
was
half
of
a
“bigger
conspiracy”
hatched
by
Patel
to
get
the
state
authorities
dismisses
in
after
the
2002
riots.
Defending
Patel,
the
Congress
claimed
earlier
in
the
day
that
the
expenses
levelled
in opposition to
him
are
half
of
Modi’s
“systematic
technique
to
absolve
himself
of
any
duty
for
communal
carnage”
unleashed
when
he
was
the
chief
minister.
“The
prime
minister’s
political
vendetta
machine
clearly
does
not
even
spare
the
departed
who
have been
his
political
adversaries.
This
SIT
is
dancing
to
the
tune
of
its
political
grasp
and
will
sit
wherever
it
is
informed
to,”
the
opposition
celebration
alleged
in
a
assertion.
Mischievous
and
manufactured:
Congress
refutes
Ahmed
Patel-Teesta
Setalvad
expenses
Hitting
again,
Patra
termed
the
Congress’ assertion
as
mischievous
and
requested
if
the
Supreme
Court docket
had
additionally
acted
underneath
“stress”
when
it
had
slammed
Setalvad
and
different
accused
for
their
“ulterior
designs”
and
known as
for
them
to
be
put
in
the
dock,
main
to
registration
of
a
case
and
their
arrest
by
the
Gujarat
police.
The
BJP
chief
mentioned
the
Congress
seems
to
be
protecting
numerous
sorts
of
denials
prepared
and
releasing
them
by
altering
dates.
“We
need
Sonia
Gandhi
to
maintain
a
press
convention
and
tackle
the
nation
as
to
why
she
was
conspiring
in opposition to
Modi,”
he
mentioned,
claiming
that
his
press
convention
is
not
an
assault
on
Patel
as
he
was
simply
a
medium
by
which
Gandhi
acted.
She
hatched
a
conspiracy
to
malign
Gujarat
and
nook
Modi
with
an
goal
to
harm
him
and
the
BJP
to
promote
her
son
Rahul
Gandhi,
Patra
claimed.
Citing
the
SIT
affidavit,
he
claimed
that
Setalvad
was
given
Rs
30
lakh
for
private
use
by
Patel.
“Patel
solely
delivered
the
cash.
Sonia
Gandhi
gave
it,” he
alleged.
Patra
famous
that
Setalvad,
who
has
been
pursuing
Gujarat
riots
circumstances,
was
given
Padma
Shri
and
additionally
made
a
member
of
the
Nationwide
Advisory
Council
when
the
Congress-led
UPA
was
in
energy.
Sonia
Gandhi
was
behind
this
as
she
was
glad
with
her
work,
he
alleged.
“Patel
is
simply
a
title.
The
driving
power
behind
this
conspiracy
was
Sonia
Gandhi,”
he
claimed.
Setalvad
enacted
bigger
conspiracy
to
destabilise
Gujarat
govt,
took
Rs
30
lakh
from
Ahmed
Patel
Patra
cited
the
Gujarat
Excessive
Court docket’s
observations
that
Setalvad
misappropriated
funds
meant
for
riot
victims
for
private
use,
together with
wine
and
vacation
resorts,
to
hit
out
at
her.
The
fact
in
the
complete
case
has
revealed
itself,
Patra
mentioned,
including
the
BJP
does
not
work
with
a
vengeance
however
with
persistence
and
believes
in
the
constitutional
course of.
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