The Congress on Thursday said that the option of legal recourse, in clean chit given to BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi by a Gujarat court in the 2002 riots, was still open. Congress said the court’s decision on Modi was a judicial procedure.
“It is a legal procedure. All legal options are still open to the complainant. It is totally misleading and wrong for the BJP to treat as a last word on judicial findings or as a vindication,” said senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh alleged senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley for adopting double standards. Singh said when his call data records (CDR) were compromised the BJP made a big issue of it where as it is adopting double standard in case of the snoopgate involving Modi.
Hailing the Cabinet’s decision to set up a Commission of Inquiry into the scandal, Singh expressed confidence that the panel will submit its report soon. He was of the view that this should have happened much earlier and rejected the Narendra Modi Government’s two-member probe panel established to investigate the matter, likening it to an “accused appointing the investigation agency”.
“I congratulate the Centre It should have happened much earlier because there is open violation of Indian Telegraph Act and Information Technology Act in this. Responsibility should be fixed in this matter. And I am confident that this commission will soon submit its report,” Singh said soon after the Union Cabinet gave its nod to set up a Commission of Inquiry into the “snooping” on a woman in Gujarat allegedly at the behest of the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.