Taking exception to BJP leaders linking him with an alleged ISIS operative, senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Sunday wrote to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking an impartial and objective probe to bring out truth. He said politicians should not speak on terror related probes, as it is the domain of agencies and judiciary.
"Matters of national security cannot be a prisoner of politics and neither should be reduced to baselessly maligning political opponents for petty electoral gains. This would be the greatest in justice we would be doing in our fight against terrorism.
“Therefore I find it extremely disturbing that the ruling party in Gujarat is vitiating a serious ongoing investigation just ahead of elections by making wild and unsubstantiated allegations," said Patel in his letter to the Home Minister.
BJP leaders including Union Ministers Muqtar Abbas Naqvi and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani have said that the arrested ISISI terror operative was a staffer in a hospital, controlled by a trust comprising Ahmed Patel. Gujarat ATS had a few days ago arrested two ISIS operatives from Surat with one of them being a staffer in the private hospital linked to the Congress leader. "We should rise above political differences in matters which involve national security.
Framing terror charges must be done by law enforcement agencies and the judiciary and not by political leaders in press conferences from party headquarters' said Patel, demanding impartial probe on this matter.