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BJP presenting convict as hero, says Congress

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party's announcement that its former MP Navjot Singh Sidhu would be its star campaigner in the Punjab Assembly elections next year, stating the "party with a difference was indeed different."

Party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the proposal exemplifies the BJP's approach to criminals, and it was promoting a convict as a national hero and presenting him before people.

"If the star of the BJP is so tainted what can be the level of the party at large?"

Sordid tale in Gujarat

Mr. Singhvi said the recent finding that the bodies exhumed in Gujarat were of riot victims contrary to the State Government's claim that these persons had gone missing. This could not have happened without state connivance.

He said the violation of human rights and the "sad and sordid tale of connivance, conspiracy and collusion" would not have come to light but for the High Court, which order a CBI probe.

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