No BJP dharna when SIT quizzed Modi: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/Taking a jibe at Congress’s satyagraha over Enforcement Directorate questioning Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Narendra Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister appeared before the special investigation team in relation to probe over post-Godhra violence but the Bharatiya Janata Party did not resort to “drama or dharna” during the questioning.

Shah made the remarks in an interview after the Supreme Court dismissed the plea challenging the clean chit given by SIT to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several others in 2002 riots.  The plea had been filed by Zakia Jafri. Amit Shah also referred to his facing arrest in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which he was subsequently acquitted, and said no “dharna” was carried out.

“In a democracy, PM Modi presented an ideal example of how the Constitution should be respected by all political persons. Modiji was also questioned, but nobody protested, and (BJP) workers from across the country did not gather in solidarity with Modiji. We cooperated with the law. I was also arrested. There was no protest or demonstration,” he said.

“This is not the first clean chit to PM Modi. Nanavati Commission has also given a clean chit. Still the SIT was formed. And Modiji did not appear before the SIT doing drama… come in support from every village if not then call MLAs, MPs and ex-MPs, hold dharna,” Shah added in a jibe at the Congress party’s decision to hold demonstrations in national capital during Rahul Gandhi’s questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in the National Herald case.