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BJP trying to subvert probe: Singhvi

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Relations between the government and the principal Opposition nosedived on the eve of the monsoon session of Parliament, after the Bharatiya Janata Party turned down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's invitation to lunch, apparently in protest against the CBI's summons to Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi accused the BJP of fielding “its senior leaders to pre-empt, influence and subvert an ongoing Supreme Court-initiated investigation.”

Mr. Singhvi said that by holding a press conference merely to defend Mr. Shah, against whom there were criminal charges, the BJP was “scaling new heights of illegal, unconstitutional and improper conduct.”

“It is also churlish and gravely irresponsible of the BJP to link an ongoing criminal investigation, involving the killing of three human beings, with the Prime Minister's invitation for lunch,” he added. Through the boycott of the invitation, Mr. Singhvi said, “the BJP rejects the spirit of cooperation and constructive collaboration with which the Congress-led UPA government, though no less than the Prime Minister of the country reached out to them to create conducive conditions for attaining the full potential of the next Parliamentary session.”

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