The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said the Supreme Court judgement rejecting Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for an SIT probe in the 2002 riots has brought out the truth and confirmed its apprehensions about Congress patronising pressure groups to defame Narendra Modi and Gujarat for <g data-gr-id="24">years,</g> and asked it to learn some lessons.
“Today, it is a matter of great assurance for us,” senior BJP leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, adding that it is regrettable and unfortunate that the then serving IPS officer was allowing his office to be manipulated for pure partisan act of Congress party.
“We have been saying for years, how Congress party wanted to exploit some NGO, including manipulation of a section of the media, against Gujarat and Narendra Modi. Our apprehension has been upheld by the Supreme Court, which has cleared the air about this. We condemn all this as the truth has finally come out,” he said.
Prasad added that Congress party has lost the elections repeatedly and they are going to lose in Bihar also. "But maybe, the time has come that Congress party will learn some lessons,” he said.
“What is truly remarkable is the Supreme Court in its judgement has confirmed with positive evidence all the apprehensions we had for last so many years. Namely, there is a group, patronised by Congress party, of NGO's of selected bureaucrats, civil servants and police officers who are doing their bidding to defame the Gujarat government and Narendra Modi and Amit Shah,” he said.
Speaking about former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, he said, he was in close association with Congress party and was e-mailing it about the proceedings before <g data-gr-id="33">Nanawati</g> Commission. “He was trying to manipulate a section of the media for his own extraneous purposes and what not, including colluding with the NGO of Teesta Setalvad. This is regrettable. This is unfortunate," Prasad said.