The Communist Party of India has criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party for “brazenly politicising” the Gujarat developments where the Central Bureau of Investigation probe has pinned down the Minister of State for Home Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
CPI national secretary D. Raja said the BJP as a principal Opposition should have `some respect’ for democratic polity and justice system of the country and “it shall not politicise the developments in such a brazen manner’. Questions being raised by the BJP over the independent functioning of the CBI were a different matter and the Left too had expressed concern that the Government of the day was trying to use the CBI.
“But, no effort should be made to cover up what the accused Minister has done in the name of fighting for the independent functioning of the CBI,” he who was here to inaugurate the Central Party School for Students told reporters in an informal chat here on Saturday.
He said the time had come for the Centre to focus on fighting the right wing extremist forces whose involvement in a series of terror acts had come to the fore. The Centre was obsessed with fighting the Left Wing Extremism and had turned a blind eye to the right wing elements which had links with Hindutva outfits.
Mr. Raja said the Left parties would raise price rise and miserable failure of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance II to check inflation in the monsoon session of the Parliament commencing on Monday.
