Modi should be prosecuted: Demands CPI(M)

The party said that the 'encounter killings' were executed with the full knowledge and direction of those leading the Gujarat govt

CPI(M) today asked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to step down and sought his prosecution following charges levelled against him and his government by jailed IPS officer D G Vanzara.

"Narendra Modi should be prosecuted in the concerned cases and should forthwith step down from office. .... In the meanwhile, the bail of Amit Shah should be cancelled," the CPI(M) Politburo said in a statement here.  It also demanded a Supreme Court-supervised inquiry to "uncover the full facts" in the CD case relating to the purported conversation of some BJP leaders on the killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, "so as to file criminal charges against those involved."

Referring to the contents of Vanzara's 10-page resignation letter, the party said it "confirms in the most direct way what was known to most citizens of this country, that the killings were executed with the full knowledge and direction of those leading the Gujarat Government."

Terming as "a chilling exposure" that encounter killings were "an intrinsic policy of the Gujarat Government against terrorism," it said Modi's "numerous statements at the time justifying the killings, fit in perfectly with Vanzara's defence."