Cong forewarns Govt against BJP design in Gujrat

New Delhi, May 8 (UNI) The Congress today said its leaders have written to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil expressing the party's apprehensions about suspended DIG Police of Gujrat D G Vanzara being liquidated by the BJP for electoral advantage in the next Assembly elections in the state.

Spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said that the party's apprehensions in this regard had already been expressed before the media yesterday by his colleague Satyavrat Chaturvedi.

Mr Singhvi said party's chief whip in the Lok Sabaha Madhusudhan Mistry had in his letter to the Home Minister, a copy of which had been sent to the Prime Minister, urged the Union Government to take suitable steps to prevent the BJP from acting on its designs to get Vanzara, facing charge of murder in fake encounters, liquidated by a Muslim to trigger riots again to capture power again through polarisation of votes in the next Assembly elections.

Mr Mistry, according to Mr Singhvi, had urged the Home Minister to ''advise, warn or suggest'' to the Gujarat Government to guard against the possibility of Vanzara being liquidated and hoped this step by the Congress would ward off any riot-like situation from developing in Gujarat as well safeguard the officer's life.

Accusing the Gujrat Government that its guardians of law were lawless, the Congress spokesman demanded that the case relating to fake encounters by police should be handed over to the CBI for investigation.

Asked whether the Centre could impose President's Rule in Gujrat in view of the situation developing in Gujrat, Mr Singhvi said the Congress was only interessted in creating awareness in the media about the whole thing.

''If after this, the person (Narendra Modi) does not act then, it is for the Centre to decide,'' he said.

UNI