Diwali in BJP as party gets two favorable rulings

BANGALORE/ AHMEDABAD: (AMN) This Friday has proved a golden day for Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) as it has won in two major front in two states ruled by it. While senior party leader and former Gujarat minister of state for Home Amit Shah  was granted bail by the Gujarat High Court in the Shorabuddin Sheikh encounter case, the party’s government in Karnataka get further boost to rule the state following Karnataka High Court verdict.    

Amit Shah was granted bail by the Gujarat High Court. While granting the bail, the court observed that the investigation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in Shorabuddin encounter case had many loopholes.

A close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi Shah was arrested by the CBI on July 25. CBI has termed Shah as the "kingpin" of the entire conspiracy leading to the encounter of Sohrabuddin and his wife.    

 Welcoming the bail Shah lawyer Nirupam Nanavati said : “Amit Shah and his family have got some relief now. He has been granted bail on a surety on Rs 1 lakh and some conditions,”. Shah had to present himself once in a month in front of CBI officials in Mumbai.    

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has been accused of killing Sohrabuddin near Ahmedabad on grounds that he was a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative on November 26, 2005.    

His wife Kauser-Bi was also allegedly killed in a fake encounter later as was an witness to her husband’s killing, Tulsi Prajapati.    

In Karnataka, the High Court upheld the disqualification of the 11 BJP rebel MLAs today . The 11 BJP MLAs had been disqualified by state Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah.  

The much awaited verdict came as a big relief for the BS Yeddyurappa government in state .  

A third judge in the Karnataka High Court upheld the disqualification of 11 rebel BJP MLAs, concurring with the decision of the Chief Justice.

Justice V.G. Sabhahit, to whom the division bench headed by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar had referred the matter, upheld Speaker K.G. Bopaiah’s order disqualifying the dissident MLAs.

The Speaker’s order of disqualification was in accordance with Para 2 (1) (a) of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution — anti-defection law, observed Justice Sabhahit, who has concurred with the ruling given by the Chief Justice earlier.  
However, Janata Dal-Secular said that it would challenge the High Court decision upholding the disqualification of the MLAs in the Supreme Court.  

 BJP hail verdicts

The BJP has hailed the Karnataka High Court ruling saying speaker decision is proved true.

BJP spokesman Tarun Vijay said the high court decision proved that Speaker K.G. Bopaiah’s Oct 11 decision to disqualify the 11 rebel members from the assembly was correct.

Expressing satisfaction over the judicial verdict, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said it was a historic decision upholding the values of democracy and a lesson for defectors.

Meanwhile Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said the BJP had sought to convert its minority government in Karnataka into a majority government. He said that lawyers would definitely form their opinion on the verdict.