Slamming the CBI chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan case, BJP national president Rajnath Singh on Thursday accused the Centre of creating ‘hype’ over the case for political gains and demanded that the Government should disclose her ‘terror links.’
Singh told mediapersons here that it was unfortunate that the chargesheet has brought the CBI and the IB into a conflicting situation over the case.
“Hype has been created with the Ishrat Jahan case for political gains. The Government should disclose what was Ishrat Jahan’s track record and that to which terrorist group she was linked to,” Singh said.
The BJP president also took a dig at the Congress-led UPA Government and alleged that the CBI is being deprived of functional autonomy. Reacting to the affidavit filed by the Centre for providing greater autonomy to the CBI, Singh said that the autonomy is useless till the investigation agency gets functional autonomy.
According to the affidavit, the Ishrat Jahan encounter case is a staged and managed one and that Ishrat Jahan and three persons were killed in cold blood in an operation jointly conducted by Gujarat Police and the Intelligence Bureau.
“The dignity of Constitutional institutions is being misused. The autonomy the Government is talking about is useless. The CBI should be given functional autonomy,” Singh said.
Touching the issue of Food Security Bill, the BJP president said that the UPA-led Government at the Centre is in a hurry to take populist steps with the approaching lok Sabha polls. He said that the Government has used Ordinance instead of allowing discussion and debate in Parliament on the bill eyeing the general election.
“Why the Government did not brought the Bill for discussion in last nine yearsIJ” Singh asked. Monsoon Session of Parliament is about to start. Why is there so much hurry that the Government has to use Ordinance for the BillIJ This is done only eyeing the general election, Singh said and added that the Bill has shortcomings and so it should have been debated in Parliament.
“We wanted to debate and discuss on the Bill in Parliament. We also wanted amendments in the Bill,” he added.