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BJP won't allow Budget Session if '84 report kept secret


New Delhi, Feb 11, 2005

The BJP will not allow the Budget Session of Parliament to run if the Centre keeps Justice G T Nanavati's report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots under wraps.

Senior party leader Madan Lal Khurana told a news conference that the silence of the Congress-led government over the Commission's probe results amounted to ''suppressing the truth''.

''The BJP will not allow running of the Budget Session if the 1984 report is not made public by then,'' said Mr Khurana as he supplied to reporters copies of his affidavit he had submitted before the Nanavati Commission in 2000.

He accused the UPA government of double standards, citing the media release of Justice U C Banerjee's interim report on the Godhra train fire.

''If Railway Minister can make that report public, why has the government to shy away from releasing the 1984 report?'' Mr Khurana asked.

He alleged that the Congress administration was deliberately keeping the findings of Justice Nanavati a secret in order to prevent the BJP from using them against it during the ongoing elections in Bihar and Jharkhand.

The BJP leader also questioned the timing of the report submission, alleging the Centre avoided its acceptance originally on January 31 because the ruling party feared electoral repercussions.(UNI)

 

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