A bitter war of words broke out between the BJP and the Congress soon after the Mecca Masjid blast case verdict on Monday
A bitter war of words broke out between the BJP and the Congress soon after the Mecca Masjid blast case verdict on Monday. The BJP demanded an apology from the Congress, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, for “defaming Hindus’’ while the Opposition party, in turn, questioned the impartiality of the National Investigation Agency under the Modi government.
Addressing a press meet in New Delhi, the BJP demanded an apology from the Congress as the “party’s attempts to defame Hindus” had come a cropper after a special anti-terror court in Hyderabad acquitted right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand and four others in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case.
“For its appeasement politics, the Congress targeted and defamed Hindus and the country for merely some votes. That conspiracy has been exposed. The Congress has been exposed like never before,” said BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra.
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, alleged that ever since the NDA came to power in 2014, most sensitive cases have been collapsing.
“It is happening in each case since the government was formed four years ago ...people are losing faith in the agencies,” he told reporters.
All India Majlis-e-Ithehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi tweeted that the NIA didn’t pursue the Mecca Masjid blast case as vigorously as expected as its “political masters didn’t allow it to do so.” The NIA had cited 10 persons as accused in the case.
It was described as the first attack in the then undivided Andhra Pradesh State, allegedly involving a group of right-wing activists. Accused five - Sunil Joshi of Madhya Pradesh, former RSS pracharak - was murdered as per the charge sheet filed by the NIA.
Accused three and four, Sandeep V. Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra respectively, both from Madhya Pradesh and RSS activists, were still ‘absconding’, the charge-sheet said.
Investigation against accused nine and 10, Tejram Parmar and Amith Chowhan respectively, was going on.
Addressing a press meet in New Delhi, the BJP demanded an apology from the Congress as the “party’s attempts to defame Hindus” had come a cropper after a special anti-terror court in Hyderabad acquitted right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand and four others in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case.
“For its appeasement politics, the Congress targeted and defamed Hindus and the country for merely some votes. That conspiracy has been exposed. The Congress has been exposed like never before,” said BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra.
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, alleged that ever since the NDA came to power in 2014, most sensitive cases have been collapsing.
“It is happening in each case since the government was formed four years ago ...people are losing faith in the agencies,” he told reporters.
All India Majlis-e-Ithehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi tweeted that the NIA didn’t pursue the Mecca Masjid blast case as vigorously as expected as its “political masters didn’t allow it to do so.” The NIA had cited 10 persons as accused in the case.
It was described as the first attack in the then undivided Andhra Pradesh State, allegedly involving a group of right-wing activists. Accused five - Sunil Joshi of Madhya Pradesh, former RSS pracharak - was murdered as per the charge sheet filed by the NIA.
Accused three and four, Sandeep V. Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra respectively, both from Madhya Pradesh and RSS activists, were still ‘absconding’, the charge-sheet said.
Investigation against accused nine and 10, Tejram Parmar and Amith Chowhan respectively, was going on.