Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday slammed Opposition parties for targeting the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case.Shah threw light on the recent verdict of the Supreme Court giving a clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister in the 2002 Gujarat riots case where the petitioner was Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court on June 24 dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several others in the 2002 Gujarat riots.A bench headed by Justices AM Khanwilkar said that it finds the appeal as “devoid of merit”.
While slamming the Opposition led by Congress for constantly trying to malign the reputation of Prime Minister Modi, Shah said, “Congress party should apologise to PM Modi for causing him harassment for the last many many years.”
Shah also reiterated that the culprits in the case who acted with vendetta must be punished and he also lauded the Prime Minister for his maturity and his faith in the Indian judicial system and democracy.“Be it the issue concerning India’s fight against Covid-19 or even the valour of the Indian arm forces doing surgical strikes, it has only been negative politics that Congress has championed,” he said.
“The only agenda of the congress party was to collaborate with divisive forces and spread negativity about the country,” said Shah in his political resolution.