BJP, Congress spar over IB letter

Gandhinagar: After the leak of a confidential letter of the state intelligence bureau which mentions the alleged threat due to the anti-CAA/NRC protests to BJP leaders such as PM Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, CM Vijay Rupani, deputy CM Nitin Patel, MoS home Pradipsinh Jadeja and BJP ex-MLA from Jamalpur-Khadia Bhushan Bhatt, Gujarat Congress said this was a conspiracy to curtail peaceful protests by citizens against the CAA and NRC.

Gyasuddin Sheikh, the Congress MLA from Dariapur, alleged that the leak of the so-called IB report was aimed at giving a reason to police to further increase actions against peaceful protesters. He said Bhushan Bhatt had hatched this conspiracy for publicity, and to act against Muslim protesters.

Bhatt rejected the allegations, “The MLAs of Jamalpur and Danilimda are behind this politics. The two MLAs had been to Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, then they went to Khambat when trouble broke out there and recently it was them fueling the sticker movement,‘Kagaz nahi dikhayenge’, which are being stuck outside houses in certain pockets of the city. When none of this worked, these Congress leaders are now indulging in cheap politics and dragged our names including that of senior BJP leaders like Bharat Barot into the intelligence report leak and claiming that it is to end peaceful protests.” tnn