Rajnath subverting Constitution: Cong.

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MAY 6. The Congress today criticised the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister for refusing to move the court and remove the technical flaw in the Babri Masjid demolition case against the 21 accused persons.

``A Chief Minister who has taken oath under the Constitution is expected to uphold it and not subvert it,'' the Congress spokesperson, Mr. Anand Sharma, said.

He charged the BJP with thwarting the due process of law in pursuit of its communal agenda. The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court while letting off the three Union Ministers had not pronounced them innocent. It had merely pointed out a technical flaw, Mr. Sharma added.

Instead of rectifying this flaw, the BJP in a brazen show of disrespect to the criminal justice system, had sought to demonstrate its total lack of respect to the law of the land, he said.

The CPI(ML) has termed dropping off criminal proceedings against the accused as a ``deliberate and calculated attempt on the part of the BJP-led Government and the Uttar Pradesh Government to hush up the case''.

It also accused the RSS and the BJP of ``shamelessly misusing their position of power, both at the Centre and in the State, to stop the court and the investigating agency from arriving at any verdict against their leaders''.

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