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)