Describing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as his “god”, former chief of Gujarat police’s crime branch and ATS D.G. Vanzara, in his letter, stated that all these years in jail he had been maintaining “a graceful silence only because of my highest respect for Narendra Modi whom I used to adore like a god”.
“But I am sorry to say that my god did not rise to the occasion under the evil influence of Amit Shah, who usurped his eyes and ears and has been successfully misguiding him by converting goats into dogs and dogs into goats for the last 12 years”, the letter adds.
Launching a scathing attack on Mr Shah, who is now in charge of the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, the police officer added that “the criminal negligence of this government and wilful acts of omission and commission by Amit Shah towards the fate of 32 jailed officers are so nauseating that it may take this government to the cremation ground sooner or later”.’
Mr Vanzara also alleged that “Amit Shah introduced the dirty policy of use the officers and throw them by deliberately spreading misinformation about them”.
Further criticising the role of Mr Amit Shah he alleged that the Gujarat government, through the dirty tactics of the former state home minister, was only managing for its own self to swim and prosper in all directions while allowing police officers to sink and die a natural death.
Mr Vanzara accused Mr Shah of adopting “British policy of divide and rule” towards state police officers and creating what he called a crisis of confidence among senior officers. “Instead of providing an innovative and benevolent leadership for keeping the police force of the state intact, efficient and fighting machine, Amit Shah, introduced a much despised British policy,” he said.
Mr Vanzara further clarified that officials of the crime branch, ATS and the border range, during the period 2002-2007 when most of the encounters happened, simply acted and performed their duties “in compliance with a conscious policy of this government”.
While targeting Mr Modi’s political ambition of moving to Delhi, the police officer said that “it would not be out of context to remind (Modi) that he, in the hurry of marching towards Delhi, may kindly not forget to repay the debt which he owes to jailed police officers who endowed him with the halo of Brave chief minister”.
Interestingly, Mr Vanzara did not specify in his letter who these policy formulators were. In his letter, that virtually acknowledges fake encounters during Mr Modi’s tenure, Mr Vanzara has referred to how those killings paid “rich political dividends” to the state’s BJP government.