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Modi's political vendetta doesn't spare departed: Congress on Ahmed Patel reference in Gujarat riots case
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Modi's political vendetta doesn't spare departed: Congress on Ahmed Patel reference in Gujarat riots case

| @indiablooms | 16 Jul 2022, 01:56 pm

The Congress has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Gujarat Police Saturday claimed late politician Ahmed Patel had plotted against the then state Chief Minister in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Patel had plotted against then Gujarat Chief Minister (now Prime Minister) Narendra Modi in connection with the communal riots that broke out in the state in 2002, police claimed in an affidavit Saturday, media reports said.

Slamming Modi, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The Prime Minister's political vendetta machine clearly does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries. This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to.

"We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a 'clean chit' to the Chief Minister."

The Gujarat Police has already opposed the bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad, who is one of two people arrested by Ahmedabad Crime Branch on the charge of conspiring to falsely implicate people in the riots, which had shaken Gujarat politics back then.

Gujarat Police's Special Investigation Team or SIT said Setalvad was a part of a larger conspiracy hatched by Patel, who was a close aide of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, to uninstall the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state after the riots.

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