“CBI Under Congress Rule Pressed Me to Frame Modi”: Amit Shah

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Congress-led UPA rule had put pressure on him to frame the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in a fake encounter case.

His statement coincided with the opposition’s continuing protests against the alleged misuse of central agencies by the Central government.

Amit Shah told this while answering a question put up by the media regarding the alleged misuse of ‘central agencies’ by the Modi government.

“The CBI “was putting pressure” on me to “frame Modi ji” (when he was Gujarat CM) in an alleged fake encounter case during the Congress government,” he said, adding that the BJP never raised a ruckus despite this.

PM Modi on Tuesday hit out at the Opposition, saying some parties have together launched a campaign to save the corrupt, terming it the “Bhrashtachari Bachao Abhiyan”. “All the faces that are involved in corruption are coming together on one platform,” said PM Modi.

Asked on Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a criminal defamation case by a court in Surat, the home minister said the Congress leader was not the only politician who was convicted by a court and lost membership of the legislature. Instead of moving to a higher court, Rahul has been trying to create hue and cry and blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his fate, he added.