 GVLN Rao Political analyst and BJP member |
The facts coming to light about the encounter killings are revealing. The information that they were militant suspects on a mission was a tip-off by the central intelligence agency to the state’s crime branch and earlier, the central government in an affidavit supported the stand of the state government. The change in stance of the central government purely for political reasons has infuriated even the Gujarat High Court yesterday, where the matter is pending.
The Congress party’s eagerness to make political capital out of everything, involving even the sentiments of minority community is deplorable. First of all, it is yet to be established whether the encounter killings are real or fake. Whatever are the facts in this case, fake encounter killings are unacceptable in a civilised society. They ought to be condemned and the culprits brought to book, irrespective of wherever they happen and whoever is involved in them, irrespective of the caste or creed of the victims. It is here the motives of the Congress party are suspect as it has been oblivious to the cries of alleged fake encounters of “innocent” youths causing a turmoil in the north-eastern hill state of Manipur over the past few days.
The Congress party must find better methods of fighting Gujarat’s popularly elected CM. Flinging mud at him on flimsy grounds would boomerang on the party as happened in the case of Sohrabuddin — an established criminal involved in some heinous crimes — whom the Congress projected as a martyr and then suffered adverse electoral consequences. The Congress should take on Narendra Modi in the electoral battlefield rather than squander its time by fighting him in press conferences.
