Escalating attack on the main opposition party, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and his close aide Amit Shah for their alleged involvement in the snooping row, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday said that the buck stops at the Gujarat Chief Minister.
Expressing his comments on social networking website, Digvijay tweeted: “Even Amit Shah has confessed it was done at ‘Saheb’s instructions. Modi has kept Home with him since 2002! Would Media pl take note of it?”
“Snoopgate of Gujarat why is no one talking about the violation of Telegraph Act and the IT Act? It is Modi where the buck stops not at Amit”
Congress yesterday had said the BJP should change Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, as the saffron party rejected its demand for a probe into “illegal” police watch of a woman allegedly at the behest of his close aide Amit Shah.
The BJP said the matter involving the woman in Gujarat should be put to rest after her father did not want any probe.
Countering the Congress demand for a central probe, the BJP said it was “politically motivated” and wondered why it was insisting on this when the matter was a state subject.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde indicated that security agencies were collecting information on the whole issue and if required a probe could be ordered. “We are collecting information on this and after that we will look into the matter,” he told reporters.