05-03-2007, 03:01 AM
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Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
Party mounts strong defence of Gujarat CM
Throwing its weight behind Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is facing flak from the UPA partners over the issue of fake encounters, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday challenged the rivals to take on their 'political bete noire' in the coming battle of ballots in the State.Â
"Modi is a popular Chief Minister. His baiters should fight him in the election. For the pseudo-secularists, it has become a fashion to attack Modi on all counts. It is going to boomerang on them and Modi would romp home again," former BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday.
Gujarat is scheduled to go to polls by the end of 2007 and the BJP leaders are confident of retaining power in the State under the leadership of Modi, given his appeal and performance.
Asserting that the party would not lie low to offset the Congress-Left orchestrated diatribe against Modi, <b>Naidu sought a 'full-fledged' inquiry into the incident of fake encounters across the country after the reports of the complicity of Andhra Pradesh Police surfaced</b>.
<b>"All possible angles have to be investigated. We cannot have one yardstick for Gujarat Police and another for Andhra Police," he said, reiterating that law would take its own course in the case of Sohrabuddin's killing in the alleged fake encounter. "All encounters should be probed," </b>he said.
<b>By demanding proper probe in all such killings, the BJP seems to have killed two birds with one stone. If there were an inquiry into the incident by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as being demanded by the Centre in the Supreme Court, the chorus for similar probe in other killings could not be ruled out. Such a demand has already been made in the case of Nandigram.</b>
<b>"The encounters have taken place in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka when the Congress was in power. Such incidents have taken place in UP too. The incidents of rape and atrocities against women were reported from various states under Congress regimes too. Everyone knows what had happened in Nandigram, where innocent people were killed and women were raped,"</b> Naidu said.
Responding to the demand of Modi's resignation from different opposition quarters, Naidu asked:<b> "Had Home Minister Shivraj Patil done so in the wake of numerous incidents of fake killings in Jammu and Kashmir? Has Lalu Prasad Yadav resigned after the incidents of rape and killings in the running trains? It is strange that a person out on bail is demanding jail for Modi for committing no crimes." </b>
The reported complicity of Andhra Pradesh Police in the fake encounter has come handy to the BJP to attack Modi's critics. According to the reports appearing in various sections of media, <b>the Gujarat Police acted on the tip-off received from the Andhra Pradesh Police. The team from Anti-Terrorist Squad of Gujarat Police had conducted a joint operation with the police of Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan in pinning down Sohrabuddin</b>.
<b>The specific input received from the Andhra Pradesh Police had indicated that Sohrabuddin was involved with the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and could attack top political leaders in the State. Based on this information the joint police team intercepted the bus from Hyderabad to Sangali, in which Sohrabuddin was travelling with his wife Kausar Bi.</b>
<b>Hyderabad Police Commissioner Balvinder Singh on Tuesday told the mediapersons that 'it was a normal practice to provide logistical support to other state police' in such situations.</b> His statement was, however, in stark contrast to that of Andhra CM YS Rajashekhara Reddy, who said that he was not aware of any such support given to the Gujarat Police. <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â
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Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
Party mounts strong defence of Gujarat CM
Throwing its weight behind Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is facing flak from the UPA partners over the issue of fake encounters, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday challenged the rivals to take on their 'political bete noire' in the coming battle of ballots in the State.Â
"Modi is a popular Chief Minister. His baiters should fight him in the election. For the pseudo-secularists, it has become a fashion to attack Modi on all counts. It is going to boomerang on them and Modi would romp home again," former BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday.
Gujarat is scheduled to go to polls by the end of 2007 and the BJP leaders are confident of retaining power in the State under the leadership of Modi, given his appeal and performance.
Asserting that the party would not lie low to offset the Congress-Left orchestrated diatribe against Modi, <b>Naidu sought a 'full-fledged' inquiry into the incident of fake encounters across the country after the reports of the complicity of Andhra Pradesh Police surfaced</b>.
<b>"All possible angles have to be investigated. We cannot have one yardstick for Gujarat Police and another for Andhra Police," he said, reiterating that law would take its own course in the case of Sohrabuddin's killing in the alleged fake encounter. "All encounters should be probed," </b>he said.
<b>By demanding proper probe in all such killings, the BJP seems to have killed two birds with one stone. If there were an inquiry into the incident by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as being demanded by the Centre in the Supreme Court, the chorus for similar probe in other killings could not be ruled out. Such a demand has already been made in the case of Nandigram.</b>
<b>"The encounters have taken place in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka when the Congress was in power. Such incidents have taken place in UP too. The incidents of rape and atrocities against women were reported from various states under Congress regimes too. Everyone knows what had happened in Nandigram, where innocent people were killed and women were raped,"</b> Naidu said.
Responding to the demand of Modi's resignation from different opposition quarters, Naidu asked:<b> "Had Home Minister Shivraj Patil done so in the wake of numerous incidents of fake killings in Jammu and Kashmir? Has Lalu Prasad Yadav resigned after the incidents of rape and killings in the running trains? It is strange that a person out on bail is demanding jail for Modi for committing no crimes." </b>
The reported complicity of Andhra Pradesh Police in the fake encounter has come handy to the BJP to attack Modi's critics. According to the reports appearing in various sections of media, <b>the Gujarat Police acted on the tip-off received from the Andhra Pradesh Police. The team from Anti-Terrorist Squad of Gujarat Police had conducted a joint operation with the police of Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan in pinning down Sohrabuddin</b>.
<b>The specific input received from the Andhra Pradesh Police had indicated that Sohrabuddin was involved with the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and could attack top political leaders in the State. Based on this information the joint police team intercepted the bus from Hyderabad to Sangali, in which Sohrabuddin was travelling with his wife Kausar Bi.</b>
<b>Hyderabad Police Commissioner Balvinder Singh on Tuesday told the mediapersons that 'it was a normal practice to provide logistical support to other state police' in such situations.</b> His statement was, however, in stark contrast to that of Andhra CM YS Rajashekhara Reddy, who said that he was not aware of any such support given to the Gujarat Police. <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â
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