Ahmedabad: After intense opposition and media pressure, the Gujarat government has finally set up a probe into the allegations of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's key aide and then state home minister Amit Shah ordering surveillance on a lady architect. The two-member inquiry panel has been asked to submit its report in three months.
The Modi government appointed retired Gujarat High Court judge Sugnyaben K Bhatt and retired former Additional Chief Secretary KC Kapoor, to hold an inquiry into the allegations.
The Congress is already calling it a 'Modi bachao' (save Modi) committee. Keeping up the heat on Modi over the allegations of illegal snooping, the Gujarat Congress on Monday passed a resolution demanding an inquiry by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the case.
The meeting of the Congress state executive, which passed the resolution, was chaired by the party's Gujarat unit president Arjun Modhwadia. Congress's Leader of Opposition, Shankarsinh Vaghela, too, attended the meeting. "With elections approaching, we have to go to the people with the fact of how Gujarat government has flouted all the rules in the snooping scandal," Vaghela said.
Gujarat Congress will launch an agitation to take the snooping scandal to the people of the state, he added. The resolution, moved by MP Alka Kshatriya, also demanded that Modi should clarify whether his government had extended benefits to the family members of the girl in question.
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