New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today staged a protest outside the office Congress office in the national capital accusing it of propagating false facts in Batla House encounter case.
BJP MP from New Delhi, Meenakshi Lekhi said that the demonstration is against those who have brewed and nurtured terrorism in the nation. She also said that the Congress should apologise for remarks by its leaders that the encounter was fake.
“Today the main accused of the Batla House encounter is being seen featuring in ISIS video… They (Congress) released 25 to 50 people who are now involved in plotting terror activities. Today we are protesting here to expose the true face of Congress and demanding apology from them. They (Congress) would have acted against such elements but they divide the nation on religion,” she said.
"The Congress and specially Sonia Gandhi have always been double faced. When the Batla encounter took place, the Congress leader said that the encounter was fake. This demonstration is against those who have brewed and nurtured terrorism in the nation," Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay said.
Last week, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh stoked a controversy after he dubbed the Batla House encounter as 'fake' and asked the government in Centre to order a judicial probe into the 2008 encounter in which two terrorists and a police officer were killed.
"Batla House encounter was fake. I dare the BJP to go for a judicial probe. I still stand by my remarks on the encounter. I don't know who is Bada Sajid or Chhota Sajid," Digvijaya had said.
The BJP also said that the Congress, by dubbing the encounter as fake, not only projected the facts wrongly but also insulted martyrs like Mohan Chand Sharma.
"What ever happened during the Batla House encounter was projected wrongly. The Congress party should feel ashamed for propagating such false sentiments. The Congress insulted our martyr and hailed the terrorist by saying that the encounter was fake," a BJP worker said.
The Batla House encounter, which had taken place during the UPA tenure, recently came into light amid a claim by an alleged ISIS operative that he had fled Batla House right before the police raided it.
