A day after making startling claims of being the target of a police encounter, VHP leader Pravin Togadia slammed the Ahmedabad Crime Branch, calling it a “conspiracy branch to target him at the instruction of the PMO”. Mr. Togadia also threatened legal action against the special agency of the Ahmedabad police, which had called his “disappearance as staged”.
“The Crime Branch should stay within its limits and not become a tool to target people like me. I want to tell J.K. Bhatt, Joint Commissioner of Police (JCP), not to get into targeting people at the instruction from Delhi,” he said while being discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after he was found in a semiconscious condition on Monday.
“Even in the past, they had made the fake sex CD involving BJP leader Sanjay Joshi. These people had fabricated the entire CD to target Sanjay Joshi,” Dr. Togadia said. “J.K. Bhatt is hatching the conspiracy to target and malign RSS leaders with the instructions from Delhi.”
‘Leaking report’
Dr. Togadia charged the police official for selectively leaking the investigation report regarding his disappearance and also harassing his supporters and workers, who are helping him in dealing with “false cases”.
On Tuesday, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch had held media briefing in which it shared the details of investigation into Dr. Togadia’s “disappearance”, calling its staged to evade arrest by the Rajasthan police.
“I want to ask Gujarat police what it had to do with this entire episode. The case was lodged in Rajasthan and police from there were dealing with it. What promoted the Gujarat police to get involved,” he asked, reiterating his claim that “he was being targeted for speaking on important issues like Ram Temple”.
On the Rajasthan case, he said that Rajasthan Home Minister had clarified that the case against him was withdrawn long ago, but the papers were not supplied to the court, which issued a warrant against him.
Dr. Togadia defended meeting Congress leader Arjun Modhvadia in hospital where he was admitted for low sugar levels. “From Uttar Pradesh to the entire Northeast, Congress leaders are joining the BJP in increasingly ‘Congressisation’ of the BJP. And here when a Congress leader came to see me, they are making allegations,” he said.
