New Delhi: Justifying the government’s move to drop naming a judge to head the commission set up to probe Snoopgate allegedly involving Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the Congress on Tuesday said the decision was taken to avoid giving an impression of “vendetta” in the case as suggested by UPA allies.
Talking to reporters at a regular AICC briefing, Union law minister and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said, “I talked to the home minister in the morning. Nobody should feel that they are carrying out a political vendetta. If there has been a delay and then somebody feels that there is some vendetta, we do not want any such charge of vendetta against us. The allies have their own views. That is why we did not move ahead. What was wrong in that? Let the next government carry it out.”
In December last year, the Union Cabinet took the decision to set up the commission to probe the snooping of a young woman by the Gujarat police allegedly at the instance of Mr Modi.
Later last month, as the electioneering had been at its peak, senior ministers, including Mr Sibal and home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, fanned a controversy by claiming that a judge would be named for a probe before May 16 when the counting of votes in the Lok Sabha elections will be taken up.
An infuriated Opposition BJP launched a scathing attack on the Congress, saying the UPA was practising vendetta out of desperation. The BJP said the original decision of the Cabinet was taken in December and they had not decided on a judge all these days.
