UPA frantic about leaked Modi sack plan

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Publication: Newsinsight
Date: June 13, 2005
URL: http://www.indiareacts.com/nati2.asp?recno=3324

At least four home ministry and agency officials are being watched after top secret plans to sack the Narendra Modi government in July-August leaked to the BJP, soon after which the former PM, A.B.Vajpayee, warned the UPA against taking any such step while proceeding on a holiday to Manali. In his train, Sushma Swaraj spoke out against the plans to dismiss Modi, and this was followed by a warning statement from the BJP president, L.K.Advani. Once before, plans to sack Modi were leaked to the BJP, after he refused to cancel a personal visit to the UK, where he was likely to be arrested, for the death of some British Muslim tourists during the Gujarat riots. Expecting his arrest in the UK to spark off riots in Gujarat, the UPA government had planned a massive security bandobast in the state, and taking the plea of a breakdown in the law-and-order situation, Modi was planned to be sacked, but this was alerted to the BJP. Advani spoke to Modi to cancel the UK trip, and when prime minister Manmohan Singh returned the chief minister's phone call late in the night, he used that as a cover to stay on in the country. "That leak and this one has alerted the UPA government about certain officers being sympathetic to the NDA, and they are now being closely watched," said a senior official.
 

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