When Sonia Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal known as Batla House encounter ‘pretend’

In a serious improvement on Monday, terrorist Ariz Khan convicted of murdering Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma through the Batla House encounter was awarded the dying penalty by a Delhi Court. The identical court docket had pronounced Ariz Khan responsible on March 8, asserting that the prosecution had efficiently proved the case.
The Batla House encounter dates again to September 19, 2008, throughout which two Indian Mujahideen terrorists particularly Atif Amin and Mohammad Sajid had been neutralised. The terrorists had been hiding in a locality in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, after killing about 30 folks in Delhi serial blasts. When the Delhi police acquired intelligence reviews about their hideout, they ambushed the locality resulting in the encounter of the 2 terrorists. Three others, together with Ariz Khan, managed to flee the regulation enforcement earlier than being nabbed in 2018.
Although courageous Delhi Police cop Mohan Chand Sharma was martyred, a number of politicians started peddling conspiracy theories to counsel that the encounter was a false-flag operation. Instead of empathising with the martyr’s household, prime political leaders from the Congress, Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seemed to be resorting to Muslim appeasement and vote financial institution politics to stir sympathy for the Indian Mujahideen terrorists.
Batla House encounter was pretend, claimed Congress chief Digvijaya Singh
While addressing the media in July 2013 throughout his go to to Indore, Congress heavyweight chief Digvijaya Singh refused to apologise to the BJP over his claims that the Batla House encounter was pretend. Singh said, “I will never apologise. I still maintain that encounter was fake.” He additional reiterated that these sad with the decision within the Batla House case can attraction to the Court.
Singh, who had been demanding a judicial probe within the Batla House encounter, stated, “I have not seen the court order nor am I one of the parties in the case. The parties in the case can accept it or appeal against it. It will be their decision.”
Screengrab of the Hindustan Times articleDigvijaya Singh, who had been vocal towards the Batla House encounter, had additionally launched a e-book within the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults. The e-book claimed that the Mumbai terror assault, which was the handiwork of the Pakistani terrorists, was as a substitute an RSS conspiracy.
Mamata Banerjee claimed Balta House encounter was pretend
Back in 2008, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee had even vowed to stop her political profession if her declare that the ‘Batla House encounter was fake’ turned out to be false. “The encounter was fake. If it turns out to be false, then I will leave politics.”
Here is a video of Banerjee promising to stop politics if Batla House encounter isn’t pretend.

Arvind Kejriwal, Muslim vote financial institution and his defence of terrorists
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal didn’t wish to be left behind. In 2013, Arvind Kejriwal demanded an ‘independent investigation’ into the Batla House encounter. Casting aspersions on the authenticity of the encounter, he stated, “The court has said the youth (killed in the Batla House incident) were terrorists. I had said that even if they were terrorists, it was extremely important to catch them alive to know who their real handlers are. There needs to be an independent investigation to know if it was necessary to kill them.”
Screengrab of the Hindustan Times reportHe had additionally insinuated that the martyrdom of Mohan Chand Sharma was an inside job. “It must also be probed under what circumstances the police officer (Mohan Chand) was killed,” Kejriwal emphasised. In a bid to attract Muslim voters, he stated that his celebration members resembling Prashant Bhushan have been preventing battles for Muslims like in ‘fake Batla House encounter.’
Death penalty to Ariz Khan in Batla home encounter case. Kejriwal who supported Batla House terrorists is the most important fraud in nation. disgrace!#BatlaHouseEncounter pic.twitter.com/Kf5NVSz8Oi— Atul Ahuja (@atulahuja_) March 15, 2021
Kejriwal had made these statements simply months forward of the Delhi Assembly elections the place his celebration emerged as single largest celebration however had did not cross the bulk mark.
Recently, Law Minister RS Prasad hit out at each Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal for casting aspersions in regards to the 2008 encounter. He stated, “The Samajwadi Party, BSP, Congress, Left and Mamata Banerjee made the Batla House incident a national issue. What does this mean? Will our fight against terrorism be weakened for votes? Today, after more than 100 people testified and scientific and medical evidence led to the conviction of a big terrorist in the case, will these parties apologise.”
Sonia Gandhi cried over ‘visuals’ of Batla House encounter
Salman Khurshid, a senior Congress chief, in one in every of his rallies through the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, had stated that Sonia Gandhi, the then Congress President cried bitterly after seeing the pictures of the slain terrorists.
Khurshid had stated, “When we showed Sonia Gandhi the images of the ‘incident’, she started crying bitterly and with folded hands, she said please do not show me these pictures. Immediately go and speak to the Wazir-e-Azam (Dr Manmohan Singh) and discuss the mater. I talked to the PM and it was decided that the matter will be further investigated.”
Screengrab of the NDTV reportHowever, in 2019, Salman Khurshid retracted his assertion and claimed that he was quoted out of context. He stated, “I never said that. In fact, I was misquoted. There was a difference between what I had said and what the media projected. I had said that the then Congress President didn’t wish to see visuals of an encounter (as the images are painful in nature).” Except, it doesn’t seem so.

While political opportunism isn’t new to Indian politics, the Batla House encounter was a obvious instance of placing vote financial institution politics over the nation’s pursuits. By insinuating that the probe was not unbiased, stirring sympathy for the terrorists, mocking the martyrdom of MC Sharma, casting aspersions in regards to the genuinity of the encounter, the Congress, AAP and TMC have let the nation down.