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  • ‘SIT dancing to tune of its political master’: Congress on allegations against Ahmed Patel

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s charges that its leader Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state government.

    “This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.

    The statement said that this is Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine which does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries.

    “This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” Jairam said.

    He said giving judgment through press, in an ongoing judicial process, through puppet investigative agencies who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s tactics for years.

    “This is nothing but another example of the same, with the added object of vilifying a deceased person since he is obviously unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s charges that its leader Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state government.

    “This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.

    The statement said that this is Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine which does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries.

    “This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” Jairam said.

    He said giving judgment through press, in an ongoing judicial process, through puppet investigative agencies who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s tactics for years.

    “This is nothing but another example of the same, with the added object of vilifying a deceased person since he is obviously unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

  • 2002 Gujarat riots: SIT’s charges against Ahmed Patel manufactured, mischievous, says Congress

    By Agencies

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s charges that its leader Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state government.

    “This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his ‘rajdharma’,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.

    The statement said that this is Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine which does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries.

    “This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” Jairam said.

    He said giving judgment through press, in an ongoing judicial process, through puppet investigative agencies who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s tactics for years.

    “This is nothing but another example of the same, with the added object of vilifying a deceased person since he is obviously unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

    Setalvad has been arrested, along with former IPS officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in the Gujarat riots case.

    Citing the statements of a witness, the SIT HAD said the conspiracy was carried out at the behest of late Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s behest, Setalvad received Rs 30 lakh after post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

    Setalvad used to meet the leaders of a “prominent national party in power at that time in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP government in riot cases,” the SIT further claimed.

    It cited another witness to claim that Setalvad in 2006 had asked a Congress leader why the party was giving “chance to only Shabana and Javed” and not making her a member of the Rajya Sabha.

    Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several others in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri was among 69 people killed during violence at the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clean chit to 64 people including Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat at the time.

    After 58 pilgrims were burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express train at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out across the state in which more than 1,000 people were killed. (ANI)

    ALSO READ | Pinarayi flays Congress’ ‘silence’ on arrests of RB Sreekumar, Teesta Setalvad

    (With online desk inputs)

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s charges that its leader Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state government.

    “This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his ‘rajdharma’,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.

    The statement said that this is Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine which does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries.

    “This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” Jairam said.

    He said giving judgment through press, in an ongoing judicial process, through puppet investigative agencies who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s tactics for years.

    “This is nothing but another example of the same, with the added object of vilifying a deceased person since he is obviously unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

    Setalvad has been arrested, along with former IPS officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in the Gujarat riots case.

    Citing the statements of a witness, the SIT HAD said the conspiracy was carried out at the behest of late Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s behest, Setalvad received Rs 30 lakh after post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

    Setalvad used to meet the leaders of a “prominent national party in power at that time in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP government in riot cases,” the SIT further claimed.

    It cited another witness to claim that Setalvad in 2006 had asked a Congress leader why the party was giving “chance to only Shabana and Javed” and not making her a member of the Rajya Sabha.

    Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several others in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri was among 69 people killed during violence at the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clean chit to 64 people including Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat at the time.

    After 58 pilgrims were burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express train at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out across the state in which more than 1,000 people were killed. (ANI)

    ALSO READ | Pinarayi flays Congress’ ‘silence’ on arrests of RB Sreekumar, Teesta Setalvad

    (With online desk inputs)

  • Won’t be joining active politics, announces Ahmed Patel’s son Faisal

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: Faisal Patel, son of late senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, has announced that he will not join active politics and continue to follow his father’s legacy that was to work for the downtrodden and underprivileged.

    “Finally decided-I will not be joining active politics. I will continue to work on my existing social initiatives in Health care, education and technology. Late Ahmed Patel ji’s true legacy was working for the downtrodden and underprivileged. I pledge to continue doing so. #wemissahmedpatel,” Faisal tweeted on Saturday.

    Faisal, who is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School and the Doon School, is an entrepreneur with a focus on big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things and Blockchain.

    Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel died on November 25, 2020 due to multiple organ failure at Medanta Hospital at Gurugram. He was suffering from complications due to Covid-19. He was 71.

    Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat Patel, also the Treasurer of the Indian National Congress, had tested positive for the COVID-19 on October 1 and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on November 15.

  • Editorial: – Cooperation of corruption accused leaders seized in China

    Crazy elephants become crushing leaders of the opposition, Arman of the people

    Now after Chidambaram, Nirvav Modi’s connection with Ahmed Patel: Rs 5 thousand crore banking fraud of Sonia Gandhi’s special Ahmed Patel trapped: Rs 4,701 crore worth of property seized

    Passports of all the leaders accused of corruption in China have been seized. But we are not only accused of corruption but leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, who were released on bail in the corruption case, and Laloo Yadav, who have been languishing in jail and who have been involved in the scam of ED, CBI and IT, are involved. Apart from this, Congress leaders including Chidambaram, Ahmed Patel, Aam Aadmi Party’s Satyendra Jain and Mamta Banerjee’s team leaders are also trapped. Mayawati is also not untouched in it.

    The irony is that they are crushing the Armanas of the public by deviating from all idol-like elephants. Today, all this, especially the alliance of the Feminist parties, has been done to cheat the public.

    Their only negative, unholy coalition is to remove only Prime Minister Modi. This coalition is without leadership.

    Farmer’s son Ahmed Patel is the key advisor to Sonia Gandhi.

    When Rajiv Gandhi took over the command of Congress after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Ahmed Patel was among his closest people. It is said that at that time the three people who were chiefly involved in Rajiv Gandhi’s advisers were called Amar, Akbar, Anthony. Among them were Amar Yani Arun Singh (Rajiv Gandhi’s friend from Doon school age), Anthony i.e. Oscar Fernandes and Akbar i.e. Ahmed Patel.

    According to today’s news scam of 5000 crore! Sonia’s advisor Ahmad Patel and her son in the investigation of the ED investigation: Ahmad Patel’s name may be linked to financial problems related to financial fraud related to the Sundaresa Group, adding to the difficulties of Congress.

    Sources linked to the ED said that the name of Ahmad Patel’s family has surfaced during the investigation of bank loan fraud case of more than Rs. 5000 crores. After filing an FIR in this regard by the CBI, ED filed a case against Sterling Group of Companies, Sterling Biotech Limited, its Directors, Chartered Accountant and the then Director of Andhra Bank under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. It has been alleged that the group’s companies had taken loans of more than five thousand crore from the consortium of Andhra Bank-led government banks by tampering the records. It was used in foreign companies other than the country. The investigating agency arrested Gagan Dhawan, who played the role of middleman in this case. At that time Dhawan’s tone was said to be associated with influential bureaucrats and leaders. According to the allegation, the money of the loan was transferred to Dhawan, which he allegedly used to buy the property.

    Banking fraud and money laundering case also reached Ahmad Patel’s family

    Let us know that Ahmed Patel and his family have reached the flaws of Banking Fraud and Money Laundering case on the Tasasara Group. According to information, Sunil Yadav, employee of the Tasrsara group, has also named Ahmed Patel’s son Faizal Patel and son-in-law Irfan Siddiqui before the ED. Yadav, in an affidavit filed in the statement, has alleged that Dasasara Group’s owner Chetan Dasasara and his colleague Gagan Dhawan gave Siddi many times Rs. 15 lakhs. In his statement to the ED, the Saadasara group mentioned to the ED that Chetan had been visiting Ahmed Patel’s house at 23, Mother Crescent, New Delhi and was called Headquartered 23 by the Ansar. According to Yadav, Siddiqui used to call Jassi Jasya and Faizal Patel J-1. Yadav’s statement was recorded under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Despite the summons of ED, Chetan Mascassa has not been presented before the investigation agency. While Gagan Dhawan has been arrested.

    Not only Mamta Banerjee’s party, her minister is also trapped in Cheetfund Frad. Lalu Yadav’s companions can ever become Chidambaram Ji. The CBI’s screw is not only on them, but also on their son and wife. Probably on June 6, Chidambaram will have to appear before the CBI.

    The surprise is that the end of UPA rule was due to corruption. Still, the families of these opposition parties are in the grip of investigating agencies in most cases of corruption. In spite of his pleasure in winning some of the by-elections, he is crushing the Armanas of the people by becoming drunk. Coalition is making the base without any basis for cheating the public to cover the bright future of 125 crore people of India.

    The public needs to be conscious of this.