Gujarat Congress leaders mount offensive against Modi on snoopgate

They said that the Inquiry Commission headed by retired Judge Sugnaben Bhatt appointed by Gujarat has “irrelevant” terms of reference and there is no reference to the issue of telephone tapping.

Demanding that the Commission be dissolved, the Gujarat Congress leaders also said that the terms of reference also do not refer to the criminality aspect.

In the petition, they raised a number of questions including what “relation” the Chief Minister had with the said woman which warranted deployment of all the security agencies of government of Gujarat?

The Congress demand came even as BJP accused the UPA government of ‘stooping to any level to malign' the BJP PM candidate.

Senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said in Chennai that the attempt to constitute an inquiry into the alleged snooping episode in Gujarat in which there was no complaint exposed the ‘desperation' of the Congress in the run up to the general elections.