Like BJP, CPM too unhappy with Bofors verdict, wants case revived

Within a day of the Congress camp expressing jubilation over the Delhi High Court verdict in the Bofors case, the CPI(M) has expressed its d...

Within a day of the Congress camp expressing jubilation over the Delhi High Court verdict in the Bofors case, the CPI(M) has expressed its displeasure with the kind of effort that the CBI has put in and has demanded that the case be revived.

This is in line with the CPI(M)’s persistence with some features of the party’s old anti-Congress standpoints. So, on two key issues —- that of 50 per cent reservation of Muslim students in Aligarh Muslim University and displeasure with the High Court judgement in the Bofors case —- the CPI(M) has sounded almost like the principal Opposition, the BJP.

The BJP had slammed the Bofors order yesterday. The CPI(M)’s negative response on the Bofors case today could have also been prompted by the outburst of Congressmen yesterday that those who had been part of the smear campaign against Rajiv Gandhi in the late eighties and early nineties should apologise.

The CPI(M) obviously wanted to remind the government that its standpoint remains the same. The party has straightaway demanded that the CBI revive the case through the appropriate legal process. The party’s politburo said in a statement issued in the Capital, ‘‘It is surprising that after such a long investigation, such infirmities and elementary errors existed in preparing the case.’’

rime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the gathering during the inauguration of the PM MITRA Park and foundation stone laying ceremony of development works, in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. (@NarendraModi via PTI Photo)

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