Last Updated: March 30, 2023, 13:41 IST
Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Network18’s Rising India Summit on March 29, 2023. (News18)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah mentioned that even throughout the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, the BJP didn’t protest or put on black garments or cease Parliament’s functioning
In an interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on the News18 Rising India Summit on Wednesday, Home Minister Amit Shah recalled how he had suffered throughout the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, amid strain to ‘frame’ then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Live Updates from the Summit
“In 90 per cent of the questions during my interrogation, I was asked why I was getting bothered and they said they would leave me if I name Narendra Modi. Even then, we did not protest or wear black clothes or stop Parliament’s functioning. An SIT was formed against Modi which the Supreme Court itself dismissed.” Read excerpts from the interview right here
Ever since Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case, and his subsequent disqualification from the Lok Sabha as per guidelines, the Congress has been alleging misuse of central businesses by the ruling BJP, and ‘vendetta politics.’
With Parliament functioning in a logjam, outstanding Congress leaders, together with social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge, senior chief Sonia Gandhi and others have additionally been carrying black as a present of protest in opposition to the motion. Various Congress factions have additionally staged agitations throughout states in assist of Rahul.
“Make no mistake. All your attempts to create a chilling effect, a throttling effect, a strangulating effect on open fearless speech relating to public influence will not stop either Rahul Gandhi or the Congress Party,” party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi had told a news conference after the conviction.
However, Shah said Gandhi was not the only politician who has lost membership of the legislature after being convicted by a court and there was nothing to create a hue and cry about it. “He has not appealed to take stay on his conviction. What kind of arrogance is this? You want favour. You want to continue as an MP and will also not go before the court,” he said, adding from where such arrogance comes from.
“This gentleman is not the first one. Politicians who held much bigger positions and with much more experience have lost their membership because of this provision,” the home minister said.
Shah also said the people of India had seen everything under the Congress regime but “we never took to the roads in black clothes to protest”. “Have faith in the law if you are innocent,” he added.
‘Full Faith in Judiciary’
When Shah was arrested in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh ‘fake’ encounter case in 2010, he had expressed ‘full faith in the judiciary.’
“I have full faith in the judiciary and I am sure the allegations against me will be cleared by the courts,” Shah mentioned after he appeared throughout a press convention referred to as by state BJP president R C Faldu on the BJP headquarters in Ahmedabad.
Shah claimed that he was harmless and mentioned that expenses in opposition to him had been “fabricated, politically motivated and had been on the instruction of Congress authorities” and demanded that his entire questioning by the CBI should be video-graphed.
Before his arrest, Shah had said, “The incident happened five years back. But the CBI acted in such haste that they did not even give me enough time to reply. I will respond to all the charges and will expose the people who are behind bringing of these allegations.
“This is a ploy of the Congress government to carry out our political encounter as the party has not come to power in Gujarat for the last 20 years. I will fight the legal battle in the court of law and the party will fight the political battle at political level,” the BJP chief had mentioned.
Shah had mentioned, “Congress leaders are saying that Sohrabuddin was a petty legal. It was Sohrabuddin from whose home greater than 40 AK-47, 100 hand grenades and ammunition value Rs 1 lakh had been recovered. He was needed by the police of 5 states and he had 40 circumstances in opposition to him.” Read the timeline of the case right here
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