Modi shameless: Cong

The Congress on Monday suggested that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,who was questioned by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT in connection with the 2002 riots,should resign to ensure “impartial inquiry”. Congress spokesman Manish Tewari also criticised the Chief Minister for sharing the dais with Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan at a function in Ahmedabad on Sunday.

“What could the CJI do when a Chief Minister is so shameless that one day he is interrogated by the SIT and the next day he goes and sits with the CJI only to embarrass him? If there was any dignity left in him (Modi),he would not have gone to the function. He had gone there deliberately to embarrass the Chief Justice,” Tewari said at a press briefing here on Monday. Legal Department of the Gujarat Congress had on Saturday publicly requested the CJI not to share dais with Modi.

“People of Gujarat have to think seriously whether it enhances Gujarat gaurav (pride) that its Chief Minister is summoned for interrogation like a common criminal. You should ask the CM to resign immediately so that there could be impartial inquiry,” he said.