Cong: Amit Shah must be ready to face uncomfortable questions
Hinting that more trouble awaits Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the Congress on Sunday said that after Amit Shah’s arrest, the Saffron leader should be prepared to face some “uncomfortable” questions in the probe into Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. But BJP continued with its attack on Congress blaming it for “misusing” CBI for political purposes.
Blaming the BJP for adopting “obstructionist” approach, the Congress claimed that the BJP has become “nervous” in the backdrop of developments in the Supreme Court-monitored probe. “Shah was only a minister of state for home and can an MoS transfer IPS officers? So Narendra Modi will be asked about transfer of such cases. It is our understanding that these uncomfortable questions will be asked from Mr Modi and he will have to answer them,” AICC spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said.
“BJP is nervous and afraid that the investigation may go beyond Amit Shah and hence using pressure tactics to block further investigation into the case,” Mr Ahmed added.
Meanwhile, another party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi attacked the BJP for questioning the role of CBI in the case.
“Do you think CBI is full of a bunch of fools who will risk their entire career by making false allegations, non-existing allegations, which are going to be examined by the Supreme Court,” Mr Singhvi asked.
Moreover, accusing CBI for working in a partisan manner, the BJP said, the investigative agency is targeting only Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, where it has governments, and ignoring the Andhra Pradesh angle in the whole case, as the Congress is in power in that state. Claiming that Sohrabuddin Sheikh was a terrorist from whose premises in Indore nearly 300 AK-47s were recovered and operated an inter-state gang, BJP general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are under CBI radar but the Andhra Pradesh angle (in the fake encounter case) is not being investigated at all, as Congress is in power there.”
The Rajya Sabha MP was confident that Mr Shah would come out clean, claiming that the case against him was weak. “Amit Shah has already resigned and will go through the process of law. But BJP’s allegation of gross misuse of CBI by the government is too well-known,” Mr Prasad added.
“The entire case against Mr Shah is based upon sweeping investigations by CBI without any legally sustainable evidence. This motivated investigation would boomerang on the Congress,” Mr Prasad said.
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