New Delhi, Jan 17 (UNI) In response to the statement by Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann said on Saturday that the BJP government in Delhi is free to demand a CBI probe into the issue of the forensic report over the alleged remarks by AAP leader Atishi in the Delhi Assembly.
Mann pointed out that forensic investigation has already established that Delhi Assembly Leader of Opposition (LoP) Atishi did not say any such thing which insults the Sikh gurus. He accused the BJP of adding subtitles to the video, which, he said, was the real insult.
Addressing the media, Mann said “The forensic report has come, and the court has also made its position clear. But if the BJP believes that the CBI is above even the forensic laboratory, then it should go ahead and order a CBI probe as well.”
Meanwhile, Delhi AAP chief Saurabh Bharadwaj has said that Minister Kapil Mishra is now caught in his own doing, as the Delhi government’s forensic report, and an earlier Punjab Police investigation have established that the word “guru” was never used in the video.
He added that Mishra allegedly circulated a fake video to accuse the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Delhi Assembly, Atishi, and ended up committing an act of sacrilege against the gurus himself.
Bharadwaj demanded Mishra’s dismissal and challenged the BJP to place the forensic report before a court.
AAP leader Sanjeev Jha, who is the party’s chief whip in the Delhi Assembly, has said the party had earlier stated, and the Punjab forensic laboratory has now confirmed, that Atishi’s video was presented in a fabricated manner.
According to Jha, “BJP leader Kapil Mishra wrote a false transcript and posted the video, and this has been confirmed by the Punjab forensic laboratory.”
The AAP leader also said that during a press conference on Saturday, the Delhi Assembly Speaker stated that the video was genuine and that the voice matched, but did not clarify whether the word “Guru” was spoken, as the forensic laboratory gave no finding on this point, Jha claimed.
