New Delhi, July 16
Late Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s daughter Mumtaz Patel on Saturday refuted the Gujarat SIT’s charges against him and alleged that his name is being used to malign the opposition.
“I guess his name @ahmedpatel still holds weight to be used for political conspiracies to malign d opposition. Why during UPA years @TeestaSetalvad was not rewarded amp; made Rajya sabha membr amp; why the center uptil 2020 did not prosecute my father for hatching such a big conspiracy?” she tweeted.
“So their campaign for Gujarat election has begun by dragging @ahmedpatel as name in conspiracy theories. They did it before election when he was alive amp; are still doing it when he is no more,” she added.
Earlier, the Congress dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured” the SIT’s charges that Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Sitalwad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Narendra Modi-led state government. IANS
