New Delhi/Ahmedabad, August 29, 2012, PTI:
The
conviction of a former BJP minister and 31 others in the Naroda Patiya
riot case gave the Congress another opportunity to slam Chief Minister
Narendra Modi and demand his resignation, but the BJP rejected it and
downplayed the issue.
“It has been proved now that BJP's minister and officials were involved
in the Gujarat riots. Everything that happened was at the behest of
Narendra Modi,” Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh told reporters.
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid also attacked Modi in a veiled manner
after a special court in Ahmedabad convicted 32 people, including BJP
MLA and former minister Maya Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi,
on charges of murder and conspiracy in the 10-year-old case.