New Delhi, July 25 (UNI) Congress MP Shaktisinh Gohil on Monday alleged that BJP was attempting to mislead the people by claiming that Narendra Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister had appeared before the SIT during 2002 Gujarat riots probe, "without hue and cry".

"It is also incorrect to claim that Modi fully cooperated with the SIT," Gohil said in a statement here.

He, however, added that on the contrary, a BJP MLA pleaded before the High Court that SIT had no right to call any witness or any person named in the FIR and demanded a stay on the SIT summons.

"Both the High Court and the Supreme Court rejected this petition, after which an isolated Modi ji was forced to appear before the SIT," he said.

He also clarified that the UPA government had never summoned either the Prime Minister or Home Minister Amit Shah through its agencies or through any SIT formed by the government.

"The fact is that the Supreme Court and the High Court had constituted the SIT that had summoned Modi ji and that the UPA had no role in it," he said.


The Congress MP alleged that BJP had slogans, criticising the Congress, the UPA government and the then Governor of Gujarat all across the state.

He said the 80-year old Governor had no role in the SIT’s summoning of the Chief Minister, but BJP had slanderous slogans written against her.

"The state BJP had also taken out processions and indulged in sloganeering at various locations and engaged in a campaign against the then Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal," he added.

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