Document forged to tar those questioning govt: Congress

NEW DELHI: Accusing BJP of forging a supposed “toolkit” in the name of Congress, the opposition party Tuesday moved to file an FIR against the BJP leadership and said the saffron outfit is using fabrication to distract the people from the government's failure on the pandemic front.
AICC research department chief Rajeev Gowda and social department chairman Rohan Gupta filed the complaint with the Delhi police commissioner, naming BJP leaders J P Nadda, B L Santhosh, women and child welfare minister Smriti Irani and spokesman Sambit Patra among others for the alleged “forgery”. They have accused BJP leaders of “forging and fabricating documents with the intent to create communal disharmony and civil unrest in the country”.
Congress warned it would move court if the police did not file an FIR based on its complaint, demanding the provenance of the alleged “toolkit” that was circulated on what the party said is a forged letterhead of the Congress research department be investigated. It demanded BJP leaders be arrested and computers and devices seized. Nadda and others tweeted the alleged toolkit.
While lashing out, Congress termed the said “toolkit” is a attempt to “try to demolish the credibility of those who question the Modi government”, referring to BJP’s “desire” to deflect and divert questions from PM Modi over the corona chaos.
“It is all to make a leader out of a nobody (Modi). You are making the country suffer by trying to save the image of Modi and make a leader of out him,” AICC spokesman Pawan Khera said.
“How much effort the BJP spends to cover up the truth and spread lies! If it had spent half of this time in fighting corona, the situation would have been much better and would have saved people so much of suffering,” he said.
Khera warned that Congress and citizens have seen through these BJP tricks and will not keep quiet. “They will all be responded to appropriately,” he added.