Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasara urged the National Investigative Agency (NIA) to widen its probe into the killing of a tailor in Udaipur and a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist arrested in Kashmir.
He also alleged that both the accused are members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP, however, hit back at Dotasra, accusing him of doing “petty politics” based on “forged photos” that are going viral in social media.
In a letter to NIA chief, Dotasra claimed that going by media reports, Mohammad Riaz Akhtari, one of the accused in the Udaipur incident, “was an active member of the BJP and he used to regularly participate in party programmes”.
Akhtari’s pictures with BJP MLA from Udaipur Gulab Chand Kataria have also surfaced on social media.
The Rajasthan Congress chief, in his letter to the NIA director-general also claimed that according to media reports, Talib Hussain Shah, one of the two terrorists arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s in Reasi, was also the social media in charge of the BJP’s Jammu Minority Front.
“There is restlessness among the people… whether the BJP is supporting anti-national activities in its greed for power. To eliminate this doubt, the NIA should widen its investigation for both the incidents,” Dotasra said in the letter.
Hitting back at Dotasra, Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly, Rajendra Rathore termed the state Congress chief’s letter an attempt at ‘petty politics’.
“Dotasra is doing petty politics based on forged photos that are going viral on social media. Before this, he should get the photo of Asif Hasadi, the main accused in the Chhabra communal violence incident, investigated in which he was seen attending the Iftar party held at the chief minister’s residence,” Rathore tweeted.
BJP leaders in Rajasthan have already refuted the allegation levelled by the Congress that the main accused in the Kanhaiya Lal murder case in Udaipur was a BJP member.
