Liberhan a 8216;puny8217; judge,report 8216;a tragedy of errors8217;: Jaitley

There is a saying at the Bar,there are people who know the law and there are those who know the law minister. I am sure he belonged to the latter category, Jaitley said. Quoting from the report,he said Harpreet Singh Gyani was the de facto author who analysed the evidence and gave ideas for the report. Jaitley mocked Liberhan for judicial outsourcing. It is devoid of any credibility,an exercise in futility,a dud report and the ATR itself indicates it is an unimplementable report, he claimed.

The Commission is a truth investigator,not a political pundit 8230;The Judge ignored entire evidence and came to a finding8230; he named Vajpayee without calling him for deposing before the Commission as is required under Section 8 b of the Commission of Inquiry Act. Whoever wrote this report misjudged Vajpayees credibility,naming him was an overkill, he said.

Pointing out errors,he said,He errs on basic facts8230;Gets the date of Mahatma Gandhis assassination wrong8230;He says Veer Savarkar was the founder of the RSS8230;puts M A Jinnahs words in the mouth of RSS ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay8230;calls Gulzarilal Nanda a die-hard Hindu8230; and you want the country to take the report seriously? He added that the Commission had a bias against social justice and the Mandal Commission.

Pointing at the 48 extensions given to the Commission,Jaitley mocked at Justice Liberhans recommendation that retired persons should not get employment.

BJP thanks PM for apology

NEW DELHI: The BJP praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for showing grace in apologising for the demeaning remarks made by Congress MP Beni Prasad Verma against Atal Bihari Vajpayee. We thank the PM for showing the grace in apologising when his attention was drawn to the issue. It was decided that if the Prime Minister apologised,we would let the Lok Sabha function,otherwise stage a walk-out, Deputy Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday. ENS