BJP rubbishes Tehelka tapes

NEW DELHI: Rubbishing the Tehelka tapes on 2002 Gujarat riots, the BJP on Friday questioned the timing of the sting that indicts Chief Minister Narendra Modi and said if there is any truth in its contents the judicial process can take care of it.
    
The saffron party, which is in the dock over the tapes ahead of the Assembly elections in the state, cast aspersions on the motive of the sting and sought to link the Tehelka with the Congress.
    
Party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad insisted that there were several 'inaccuracies' in the contents of the tapes and suggested that some of the leaders who figured in it could be just 'boasting'.
    
"Some can be empty boasting. Some (of them) could have been trapped. But if at all there is some truth in it, the judicial process is there to take care of it," Prasad said on the contents of the tapes amid all round attack on the party in the wake of the sting.
    
Questioning the timing of the sting, he said the manner in which it was carried out "clearly indicates the mindset to bring about sharp communal divide" at the time of polls and urged the Election Commission to take steps to check such 'sinister attempts' to aggravate communal divide.
    
Asserting that there were inaccuracies in the tapes, he pointed out that Modi never went to Naroda Patiya during riots as claimed in the sting operation.
    
Attacking Tehelka, he said the magazine has never done any sting against any Congress government and went on to allege that the Central government had given tax exemptions and benefits to one of its main investors.