Shekhawat quit his police career with grace : NDA

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New Delhi, July 3 (UNI) Responding to the 'whisper' campaign in the media against Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat that he had quit his police career under cloud, the NDA today said the Vice-President had resigned from his post with grace.

NDA spokesperson Sushma Swaraj said, ''The campaign was going on in the media without quoting anybody...some sort of vicious campaign to tarnish the image of Mr Shekhawat.'' Mr Shekhawat is contesting the Presidential polls as an independent, backed by the NDA.

If Mr Shekhawat was dismissed or quit the post of Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police in October 1948, as the report claims, it would have been in the official records or the discharge slip, Ms Swaraj pointed out.

Mr M P Tripathi, the then Superintendent of Police, Sikar District, had not only commended Mr Shekhawat's conduct in the force as ''exemplary'' but also issued a certificate that during the six-and-a-half years of service he was ''faithful, diligent and most successful'' in handling the cases under his investigation.

She, however, conceded the charge that the Rajasthan government had withdrawn two cases against Mr Shekhawat registered against him during the emergency.

The cases were ''political'' and thus withdrawn, she said citing the withdrawal of charges against NDA Convenor George Fernandes in the Baroda Dynamite case, which was upheld by the Supreme Court.

She said many of the decisions of the Congress government during the emergency, including the merger of United News of India with PTI as 'Samachar' and measures for media censorship were all undone by the new Janata Party government in 1977 and there was ''nothing unusual'' about it.

Ms Swaraj said the Congress has no moral right to raise such issues against Mr Shekhawat.

UNI

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