Big revelation in SIT report: Teesta took Rs 30 lakh from Ahmed Patel to defame Gujarat government in 2002
Big revelation in SIT report: Teesta took Rs 30 lakh from Ahmed Patel to defame Gujarat government in 2002
The Gujarat SIT has made a major revelation against social activist Teesta Setalvad in an affidavit regarding the 2002 Gujarat riots. The SIT says Teesta received funds from the Congress in 2002 to defame the Gujarat government. According to the SIT affidavit, Setalvad was once given Rs 5 lakh and another time Rs 25 lakh at the behest of Congress-president Sonia Gandhi’s adviser Ahmed Patel. The SIT said this while opposing the bail plea filed on behalf of Teesta, who is jailed in the Gujarat riots case.
The SIT said in its affidavit that RB Sreekumar, then DGP of Gujarat, and former IPS Sanjeev Bhatt were also involved in conspiring with Teesta. After the Gujarat riots, these people hatched a conspiracy to destabilize the Narendra Modi-led state government. However, the Congress has strongly denied these allegations. Such allegations are being made to defame the opposition.
Sambit Patra targeted Congress
BJP has targeted Congress after SIT disclosure. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said in a press conference that the truth has come out from the affidavit as to who were behind the conspiracy. Sambit Patra said that Teesta Setalvad and others had hatched a conspiracy to destabilize the Gujarat government at the behest of Ahmed Patel. He said that Ahmed Patel is just a name. Actually, his boss Sonia Gandhi was behind this conspiracy. Sonia Gandhi along with her chief political advisor Ahmed Patel tried to tarnish the image of Gujarat.
Sambit Patra alleged that Sonia Gandhi gave Rs 30 lakh to Teesta Setalvad. He said that Ahmed Patel had delivered the rupees. Sonia Gandhi may have then given crores of rupees to humiliate and defame Narendra Modi.
A conspiracy was hatched to defame the Gujarat government
Sambit Patra said that Teesta Setalvad and others hatched a conspiracy to malign the Gujarat government at the behest of Ahmed Patel. He said that Ahmed Patel is just a name. Actually, his boss Sonia Gandhi was behind this conspiracy. Sonia Gandhi along with her chief political advisor Ahmed Patel tried to tarnish the image of the Gujarat government.
Patel’s daughter said – such allegations are being made because of the election
In this matter, Ahmed Patel’s daughter Mumtaz Patel said that this was bound to happen before the Gujarat elections. It has been 20 years since this matter. Why was no action taken when my father was alive? Such allegations are being made because of elections. My father is being defamed for the last one and a half years. Before every election some issue is raised.
Congress said- BJP does not spare even the dead people
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress strongly denies the BJP’s allegations. Narendra Modi’s failure to stop the communal genocide in 2002 led to the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari reminding him of Rajdharma. The Prime Minister’s spirit of political revenge does not spare even the dying people who were his opponents. SIT is working at the behest of his boss, he will sit wherever he is told.
Charged with conspiracy to forge documents
Ahmedabad Crime Branch has registered a case against Teesta Setalwad, former IPS Sanjeev Bhatt and DGP RB Sreekumar for conspiracy by forging documents in the Gujarat riots case. Sanjeev Bhatt is already in jail, while Teesta and Sreekumar have now been arrested.
The Supreme Court said Teesta’s role should be investigated
The Supreme Court on June 24 dismissed the plea against the SIT report that gave a clean chit to Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case. This petition was filed by Zakia Jafri. Zakia Jafri’s husband Ehsan Jafri was killed in these riots.
Communal violence broke out in Gujarat in 2002
On 27 February 2002, coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express train was set on fire at Godhra station in Gujarat. 59 people died in the fire. All these were Karsevaks, who were returning from Ayodhya. After the Godhra incident, riots broke out all over Gujarat. 1,044 people were killed in these riots. At that time Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
On February 28, the day after the Godhra incident, an unruly mob attacked Gulberg Housing Society in Ahmedabad and killed 69 people. Among the dead was former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffrey, who lived in the same society. Due to these riots, the situation in the state deteriorated to such an extent that the army had to be deployed on the third day.
The commission of inquiry gave a clean chit to Narendra Modi
On 6 March 2002, the Gujarat government constituted the Nanavati-Shah Commission to investigate the Godhra incident. Retired High Court Judge K G Shah and Retired Supreme Court Judge G T Nanavati became its members. The commission of inquiry submitted its first report in September 2008. In which the incident of Godhra incident was planned in a planned way. Also Narendra Modi, his ministers and senior officials were given a clean chit.
Justice KG Shah passed away in 2009. As a result, Justice Akshay Mehta, a retired judge of the Gujarat High Court, became its member and it was renamed the Nanavati-Mehta Commission. It submitted the second part of its report in December 2019. This also reiterated the same point made in the earlier part of the report.
