The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has for long pointed out how several Congress leaders are yet to be punished for their alleged role in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 or even the several cases of suspected ‘fake encounters’ approved by successive Congress governments at the Centre and in states. In contrast, the BJP’s Gujarat government, earlier led by Narendra Modi, has been hounded for the anti-Muslim riots of 2002 as well as the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter of 2004.
The BJP has cleverly exploited this analogy to paint the Congress and the intelligentsia that supports the party as the villains, while Modi and BJP President Amit Shah as victims. In the case of Ishrat Jahan, the BJP has alleged that it was a conspiracy hatched by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and executed by then Home Minister P Chidambaram to target Modi.
That at least two probes, including one by the Central Bureau of Investigation, found the encounter to be staged is quickly brushed aside. The probe had drilled holes in the Gujarat police theory of Ishrat, a Mumbai college student, being a Lashkar operative. The Congress, given its low credibility currently, has struggled to put forth its point of view.
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The BJP, at least since mid-February, has effectively used the Ishrat Jahan issue to put the Congress leadership on the defensive. It has kept up the heat on the issue ever since Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative David Coleman Headley suggested that he had heard about Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old girl who was gunned down by Gujarat police in June 2004.Read More.
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