BJP leader Kapil Mishra name was missing from the charge sheet in the Delhi riots case. This was pointed out by Mahua Moitra, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP.
Mahua Moitra openly criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government on Friday over the naming of several Opposition leaders in the Delhi riots charge sheet.
She questioned as to why controversial BJP leader Kapil Mishra’s name was missing from the charge sheet. She also asserted that the BJP would soon redraft history and blame former PM Jawaharlal Nehru as the chief mastermind of 2002 Gujarat riots.
Mahua Moitra took to her official Twitter handle, said, “Delhi riots charge sheet silent on Kapil Mishra but includes Yechury and Yogendra Yadav.
She said that she was certain that BJP govt will re-write history textbooks naming Nehru as the chief instigator of Gujarat riots.
The TMC leader’s sarcastic attack came hours after Delhi Police reportedly filed a supplementary charges sheet in the Delhi riots case and named a host of Opposition leaders and social activists in it allegedly for “provoking and mobilizing” anti-CAA protesters.
In a supplementary charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police in the February riots cases, names of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, economist Jayanti Ghosh and Delhi University professor Apoorvan and were added.
Some of those named have also been charged with — based on the statements of three students already arrested in the case — asking the protesters to go to “any extreme”, spreading “discontent” in the community by calling CAA/NRC anti-Muslim, and organizing demonstrations to “malign the image of Government of India”.
Their names appeared in the supplementary charge sheet, a copy of which is with the PTI, filed by the police on the riots in North East District between February 23 and 26, which claimed 53 lives and left 581 injured, 97 of them with gunshot wounds.
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