Order exposes UPA cover-up attempt: BJP

NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday welcomed the "conspiracy" theory upheld by a special court verdict that found 31 guilty in the 2002 Godhra train-burning case. The party said it "exposed the nefarious designs" of the UPA government, which "tried to cover up" the entire episode.
"Certainly, there has been a degree of assurance that law and justice has prevailed.There were elements who were trying to belittle it. There have been politicians who tried to abuse it," BJP spokesman Ravishankar Prasad told reporters after the the judgment.
He slammed the Justice U C Banerjee Committee report, which had found that the fire was lit from inside the coach. The Banerjee Committee, appointed by then railway minister Lalu Prasad to probe the cause of fire in the Sabarmati Express in Godhra, had found that the blaze was "accidental".