‘BJP would instigate riots in Cong states’

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AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday alleged that BJP would instigate communal riots in Congress-ruled states ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as the Opposition party feels that it cannot win without “communalising” the polls.
Addressing the general body meeting of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee here, the senior Congress leader claimed that BJP now feels that it cannot win the polls without communalising it.
“They (the BJP) would be instigating communal riots in Congress-ruled states,” Singh, in-charge of Congress affairs in Karnataka, alleged.
He added that BJP would also “communalise” the “body politic” in states not governed by it.
Whenever BJP feels that it is losing people’s support, it foments communal violence so that it can level allegations against the Congress and party-ruled governments, he alleged.
“We have to be very, very careful and keep an eye on these people,” he said.
Mr Singh advised chief minister Siddaramaiah to keep Sangh pariwar outfits on a tight leash.
Claiming that the Sangh operates through more than 150 different organisations, he said they have to be kept under strict watch, adding that there should also be strict control over “communal elements so that they don’t spread the ideology of communal violence and hatred.”
Mr Singh also alleged that the Gujarat government had carried out fake encounters only to raise chief minister Narendra Modi’s profile so that he becomes a “hero” in the eyes of people who believe acts of terror are done by Muslims.
Responding to media queries after a general body meeting of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee here, he alleged that “there is not only one, but six fake encounters done by Gujarat government.” The unfortunate part was that the fake encounters had taken place because of wrong information fed by the then joint director of Intelligence Bureau in collusion with Gujarat police, he claimed.
In this context, Mr Singh referred to a case of Sadik Jamal — which has not come into the notice of media — when IB on record handed him over to Gujarat police, which allegedly killed him a few days later and showed it as an encounter and “made out a story” that Jamal had planned to kill Mr Modi.