New Delhi: BJP today described as “moral victory” the Ahmedabad court's rejection of the plea against SIT's clean chit to Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, claiming that Congress was trying to trap the BJP leader in a criminal case as it could not fight him politically.
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the allegations of Modi's involvement in riots were “politically motivated” as Congress and its “friend NGOs” knew that they could not take on the Gujarat Chief Minister politically.
“Congress's attempts to implicate Modi in three cases have failed,” he said, referring to 2002 riots cases besides fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin and Ishrat Jahan. “The court's verdict has established again that the truth holds together, flasehood falls apart... Allegations were levelled (against Modi) out of political malafide, but falsehood can never substitute itself for truth.
