NEW DELHI – The BJP on Tuesday hit out at the Congress for using the CBI to target opposition leaders, in the context of the CBI reiterating its demand to reopen the case against former party president LK Advani over his alleged involvement in the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
The issue came up for discussion in the BJP parliamentary party meeting held on Tuesday morning. “What the CBI has disclosed on Monday and the day before is nothing but the rejoinder to the counter affidavit filed by Mr Advani and others questioning the entire motive. This selective leak of CBI’s stand in the pending procedure before the Supreme Court is deeply deplorable,” party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
“The CBI is working through an agenda as the front of the Congress party, when Parliament is in session. It is deliberately playing the political games of the Congress party, when people know full well that the Supreme Court has turned down the plea three times,” he added.
The CBI has appealed in the Supreme Court that Advani along with other leaders should face trial in the demolition case.
The agency opposed the separation of trial of eight accused leaders — Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and Sadhvi Rithambara — from 41 others, mainly kar sevaks, allegedly involved in the demolition of the disputed structure on December 6, 1992.
