Why affidavit on Ishrat Jahan was changed? asks Venkaiah Naidu

Mangalore Today News Network

Mar 02, 2016: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu seeks answer from the then home minister P Chidamabram and prime minister Manmohan Singh on why an affidavit on Ishrat Jahan was changed.
   

The Bharatiya Janata Party has given a breach-of-privilege notice in the Lok Sabha against the Congress`s chief whip Jyotiraditya Scindia for having made "defamatory" remarks against Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya. Earlier, the Congress had also moved a breach-of-privilege motion against Union Human Resource and Development Minister Smriti Irani, alleging that she had misled the House with her statement over Hyderabad scholar Rohith Vemula`s suicide.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will chair a strategy meeting with the senior leaders of the party today ahead of another turbulent Parliament session.
   
On Tuesday, former undersecretary for internal security at the Ministry of Home Affairs RVS Mani alleged he was tortured to implicate senior Intelligence Bureau officials in the case to project the encounter killing of Ishrat and other three LeT terrorists in Ahmedabad in 2004 as fake. Mani suggested that Chidambaram was behind the decision to file the second affidavit.
   
Earlier, former home secretary GK Pillai had alleged that Chidambaram bypassed him and rewrote the affidavit submitted to the Gujarat High Court on the alleged gunfight in which Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old student of Mumbra college, and three others were shot dead on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in 2004.
   
The Bharatiya Janata Party will likely, Wednesday, rake up the issue of the entire flip-flop the then Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre in the Ishrat Jahan shootout case.