Congress Accuses Centre of Plotting to Falsely Implicate Oppn Leaders in Parliamentary Security Breach
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 2nd Feb. The Congress party on Thursday accused the government of plotting a “conspiracy” to force the individuals arrested in the Parliament security breach case to implicate opposition leaders.
Jairam Ramesh, the Congress general secretary, criticized the government for this alleged scheme. His comments followed the claims made by five out of the six individuals arrested in the case, who stated in court that they were being subjected to torture by the Delhi Police to confess their affiliation with opposition parties.
In a post in Hindi on X, Ramesh said, “To make false allegations against the opposition to hide his crime is the way of ‘Ahankaracharya’!” The Modi government, which has put opposition leaders in jail by misusing the ED, CBI and IT department is now hatching another conspiracy, he claimed.
“Firstly, no action was taken against the BJP MP who gave passes to the youth who intruded in Parliament and 146 opposition MPs who were raising their voices over security lapses were suspended,” Ramesh said.
“Now under a conspiracy, those youth who raised their voice against unemployment are being pressured by giving third degree to take the names of opposition leaders,” he claimed.
This is being done so that false cases can be made against them and they can be held responsible for the serious lapses in the security of Parliament, Ramesh added.
“Congress’s struggle against the ‘anyay kaal’ of Modi government continues. Let us raise our voice against this unjust government through Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’,” he said.
Five of the accused — Manoranjan D, Sagar Sharma, Lalit Jha, Amol Shinde and Mahesh Kumawat — told the court on Wednesday that they were forced to sign about 70 odd blank papers.
“Accused persons were tortured/given electric shocks to sign and confess (to) the commission of crime under the UAPA and their association with national political parties… two accused persons were forced to write on the paper about their association with the political party/leader of opposition political party,” the accused told the court in a joint petition.
