BJP starts fresh attacks on PCI chairman Katju
New Delhi: BJP on Monday said the former Supreme Court judge and Press Council of India chairperson Markandey Katju was expressing “unsolicited, bizarre” opinions against non-Congress ruled states and demanded that he should step down.
“Mr Katju as Chairperson of the Press Council of India, holds a statutory position, yet he is seemingly floating around the country like a vagabond and giving unsolicited bizarre opinions,” BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters.
Rudy maintained that the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley had made an apt statement that Katju was carrying the “brief of the Congress party” and asked him to resign.
Jaitley, in a statement, said Katju’s article in a newspaper against Modi read more like a personal tirade and wondered whether he was trying to hold a brief for those who have been convicted in the 2002 Godhra train burning incident.
Katju had said that “there is still a mystery of what happened in Godhra” and he found it hard to believe “that Modi had no hand in 2002”, referring to the Gujarat riots.
Katju, in turn, accused Jaitley of twisting facts.
