Badal hails Ahemdabad Court confirmation of clean chit to Modi; describes it as a "moral rebuff to Congress"

Chandigarh, December 26, 2013: The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today welcomed the verdict of the Ahemdabad special court upholding the clean chit given to the Gujarat Chief Minister Naridner Modi in the 2002 communal violence in that state.  The court rejected a petition in this regard filed by Zakia Zafri and upheld  the closure report of the  Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court which said that there was no prosecution evidence against Modi.
"The Congress  had always worked against the  letter and spirit of the law, vitiated the political climate through acts of political immorality and set new standards in lowly conduct in publi affairs. On the issue of the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendera Modi, the Congress had  violated the repeated findings of the different bodies and institutions, including the apex court. This is hardly surprising as the Congress had at the same time been unashamedly shielding the guilty of the 1984 massacre of thousands of innocent Sikhs. The hands of the Congress party still carry the blood of innocents," said Badal in a statement here.
Commenting on the Ahemdabad special court's verdict, Badal said that the decision, like the earlier report of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT, has further confirmed the belief that the Congress party was using all kinds of tricks including legal subterfuge to implicate the Gujarat Chief Minister in one false case or the other.
"The fact of the matter is that the frustration of the Congress party had led it into acts of political immorality against its rivals, especially against Modi as it saw in the Gujarat Chief Minister a person who  represents wide national consensus to replace the UPA govt. Badal said that  the campaign to vilify Narendra Modi was clearly a case of cheap and destructive political practices indulged in by the Congress party. He said that the  Congress party had been indulging not only in a disinformation, misinformation and vilification campaign against Modi but had also been busy preparing the ground for political vendetta against its principal opponent at the national level.
"The verdict of the Ahemdabad special court  should be seen as a strong moral rebuff to the negative and destructive politics indulged in by the Congress," said the Chief Minister