The Congress on Saturday vehemently refuted the Gujarat Police’s claim that late Congress leader Ahmed Patel had hatched a conspiracy to frame the then chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case.
In a statement issued by party’s general secretary Jairam Ramesh, the Congress said it “categorically refutes the mischievous charges manufactured” against Patel, calling it a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “political vendetta”.
“This is part of Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was the chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that lad led the then Prime Minister of India Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma,” the statement read.
“The Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine clearly does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries. This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” it added.
