Gandhinagar: Amid the renewed clamour over non-tabling of Justice M B Shah commission report in Gujarat Assembly and disruption of proceedings of the house leading to suspension of all the members of main opposition Congress today, the Gujarat government took a strong exception to the behaviour of the party alleging that many inquiry commissions constituted erstwhile to probe various important matters were dissolved by the then Congress led governments but the party was now creating a scene despite the fact that the Gujarat High Court had even rejected the plea of former CM Suresh Mehta urging it to order the government to table the report in the house.

Addressing the media in the assembly premises today Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said that the commission led by the former Supreme Court Judge had given a clean-chit on most of the allegations to the then government. ‘In its over 5000 page report in 22 volumes handed over to the government the commission had found most of the allegations of corruption baseless and false. It had rejected it as non-proved ones,’ he said adding that he was to put all these facts regarding the report before the house during his reply in the question hour today but the ruckus created by Congress members could not make it possible.

The commission was constituted during the tenure of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi for inquiry in to certain cases of alleged corruption during his regime.

‘There were certain technical issues in the report as well in the wake of which a three member ministers committee was constituted of which I was also a member. The committee is under the process of replacement of the members including the erstwhile minister Saurabh Patel,’ he said.

Patel said that Congress which had misused CBI and other agencies in an attempt to malign the image of the then CM Narendra Modi and incumbent BJP president and Gujarat MLA Amit Shah, during the UPA rule at center, by leveling wrong allegation against them, now feels envious of their popularity and its members were trying to rake up the issue unnecessarily.

He said that Congress governments in Gujarat in the past had dissolved many inquiry commissions constituted to probe various important matters. ‘Such governments had dissolved commissions about 1995 hooch tragedy, 1986 Rath Yatra and communal violence (Madhavsinh Solanki regime), about the collapse of the deadly Machchhu dam flood tragedy of 1979 and the one about the probe in to large scale tree cutting scam (during the Amarsinh Chaudhary’s regime),’ he said adding that the history of Congress was like this while the priority of BJP was to provide fully transparent governance.

The Dy CM said that former CM of Congress Suresh Mehta had even approached the Gujarat High Court on the issue of the report of Justice M B Shah Commission but the court rejected his demand saying that it was government to decide when and in what manner the report should be tabled.

Earlier after the suspension of the Congress MLA’s from the assembly for the day leader of opposition Shankersinh Vaghela during his media interaction said that why the government was behaving like a thief on the matter. ‘If the BJP government is not afraid of anything, why it was delaying the tabling of the report in the house. The government talks of transparency and corruption free government, but it has not tabled the report in the house which was put before the cabinet way back on November 6, 2013. Four years have passed since then,’ he said adding that it indicates the involvement in corruption.

‘It is corruption, it is corruption, it is corruption,’ the veteran leader repeated thrice in his typical style demanding the tabling of the report at the earliest.

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