The BJP on Tuesday demanded that the government quicken the pace of investigation to apprehend the real culprits behind the killing of retired police inspector Kuppuraj and his family in Salem in the light of the shocking revelations made by Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S.Arumugam.
Mr. Arumugam, in an interview to TheHindu on Monday, stated that there was a “heinous conspiracy” within the party to silence him and this was behind his relative being arrested for the murder.
“If Veerapandi [Arumugam] says that someone is trying to frame him, then it cannot be a local branch secretary or a local functionary in Salem. Commonsense tells us that this has to be someone very powerful, more powerful than Veerapandi. So my question is who is the government trying to protect and who is the powerful person involved in the murder,” BJP State president Pon. Radhakrishnan said adding that the government had a lot to explain on this issue.
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He said that it was not right for a Minister to visit an accused in prison. The BJP's demand for a larger probe did not mean that it condoned the “wrong act” of the Minister which had set a bad precedent.
‘Hindutva targeted'
Organisations of Hindus and people who believed in Hindutva were being systematically targeted by the United Progressive Alliance government across the country, he said.
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There was a larger conspiracy behind this, he claimed and added that the BJP would unveil a strategy to counter this at an appropriate time.
Answering questions, he said that in the run up to the Ayodhya case judgment, the Congress and its allies maintained that the law should take its own course and made it clear that they believed in the supremacy of law. But after the verdict, they had begun to change slowly and now were openly attacking people belonging to the Sangh Parivar all over the country.
The Congress and its allies did not believe in peaceful methods of resolution of disputes, he said.