The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today welcomed the verdict of the Gujarat High 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 Mr. 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 Mr. Badal in a statement here.Commenting on the Gujarat High 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 Mr. Modi as it saw in the Gujarat Chief Minister a person who represents wide national consensus to replace the UPA govt. Mr. Badal said that the campaign to vilify Mr. 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 Mr. Modi but had also been busy preparing the ground for political vendetta against its principal opponent at the national level.The verdict of the Gujarat High Court should be seen as a strong moral rebuff to the negative and destructive politics indulged in by the Congress," said the Chief Minister.