J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president G.A. Mir on Friday said S P Malik is “misusing” his position as the State’s Governor “in order to please his boss” by joining the “vilification campaign” against former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who was martyred for the nation.
According to a statement issued, Mir strongly criticized the statement of Governor Satya Pal Malik regarding former PM in connection with BOFORS controversy, saying: “Malik has joined the vilification campaign of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, least caring for his position as Governor, which prohibits him from indulging in this kind of malicious campaign against the former prime minister who is no more in this world and has laid down his life for the nation.”
Malik is also ware of fact that nothing could be established against Rajiv Gandhi out of the long drawn legal battle spreading over more than three decades despite all out efforts by his political opponents to drag his name without anything proved against him, he said.
“As the Constitutional Head of the State, Malik cannot comment at his own convenience and whims in a highly irresponsible and objectionable manner while holding the position of the Governor. He has lowered the dignity of his office. It is not his domain so long he holds this august position,” Mir said.
JKPCC chief said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought the political narrative in the country to a lowest level “out of utter frustration” as he has nothing to market performance of his government in all vital parameters.
“Modi government has utterly failed to deliver on the promises made to the electorates in the last election and this part of distracting politics of BJP to divert the attention of the people to escape debate and discussion on the performance of his government during last five years. He has encouraged those sitting in the constitutional positions to follow him in the vilification campaign against the Gandhi family and Congress which is most unfortunate in the democratic history of the country,” he said.
G.A. Mir said “the entire nation knows that all efforts to malign the image of Rajiv Gandhi in the BOFORS controversy failed in the court of law in a long drawn legal battle and the BOFORS proved to be the best weapon of the India Army especially during Kargil war”.
After a BOFORS controversy, several non-Congress governments came into power in the country including five years of Vajpayee-led BJP government and five years of Modi-led government, but nothing could be established despite all sorts of efforts to drag his name into the matter.
