From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday nailed a lie spread by the BJP through social media and some selected media that Narendra Modi as then Gujarat chief minister had cooperated with the Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, without any hue and cry.
Its spokesman and Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil, who has been the opposition leader in the Gujarat Assembly, said the SIT was set up by the Supreme Court and the Gujarat High Court that summoned Modi and then UPA government had no role in its formation.
He narrated how Modi was actually forced to appear before the SIT, only after the Supreme Court and the High Court rejected the plea of a BJP MLA that SIT had no right to call any witness or any person named in the FIR, demanding a stay on the SIT summons.
Gohil narrated how the BJP had then carried out processions and written slogans across Gujarat, criticising the Congress and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and did not desist from a campaign of calumny against then Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal (80), committed Gandhian and participant in the freedom struggle, despite the fact that she had no role in the summoning of then chief minister.
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