BJP now says no protest against CBI

BJP now says no protest against CBI

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In a major turnaround, state BJP president R C Faldu said on Tuesday that the party did not plan to launch protests against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the Sohrabuddin fake encounter. We have not announced any campaign against the CBI, Faldu told Mirror.
Asked about the protests it had planned at sheri level across the state, Faldu said, “We have not planned any protest. This is a figment of the media’s imagination.”
This statement comes two days after the party called the CBI the ‘Congress Bureau of Injustice’. At a media briefing on Sunday, the state BJP had hit out at the Congress and the UPA government at the Centre for misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and using the Sohrabuddin encounter probe to tarnish the image of the Gujarat government. The party declared it would launch an agitation against the UPA government.
In a press release dated May 2, senior BJP leaders had warned that “if the CBI did not stop acting as a hand maiden of Congress in Gujarat, then the enlightened people of Gujarat would not sit idly by”. They also alleged that though the CBI had been handed over the case months ago, the officers deliberately chose the occasion of Swarnim Jayanti to taint Gujarat’s name.
Meanwhile, sources in the party said there were strong reasons for withdrawing the planned protests. “The party’s legal counsel has advised the party against holding protests as the Supreme Court has ordered the probe. Allegations that the investigation is politically motivated is wrong. The BJP leadership in Delhi too disapproved of the plan. Expressing their inability to help the state unit in the case, they directed the local members against politicising the issue,” the source added. The central leadership’s decisions are believed to be guided by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Arun Jaitley.