Modi conspiring against me: Togadia

Manas Dasgupta

Ahmedabad, January 17

Vishwa Hindu Parishad international president Pravin Togadia, who was admitted to a private hospital on Monday in an “unconscious state,” today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of conspiring against him with the help of Gujarat police.

Togadia was discharged this evening, but not before he mounted the attack on his one-time “friend” Modi. The duo fell apart after the then Chief Minister refused to protect VHP workers who were hunted by central forces for their alleged involvement in the 2002 riots in Gujarat, particularly after the Congress returned to power in Delhi.

The VHP leader, who had yesterday hinted about some “conspiracy” to kill him under the garb of “police encounter,” today named Ahmedabad Joint Police Commissioner and in-charge of crime branch JK Bhatt to be the police officer “taking orders” from Modi to “hatch the conspiracy” against him.

“JK Bhatt has begun hatching conspiracy against me and is harassing our nationalist workers at the behest of political bosses in Delhi. In the last 15 days, how many times has Bhatt spoken with the PM? Their call details must be made public,” Togadia told mediapersons just before leaving the Chandra-Mani hospital where he was treated for the last two days.

Bhatt had yesterday made public certain details involving Togadia’s movements before he was traced to the hospital on Monday evening to puncture his alleged “disappearance drama” and claim that he had “fallen unconscious while on way to airport and did not know how he landed at the hospital”.

Togadia was learnt to be perturbed over a VHP leader, Ghanshyambhai, being picked up by the police for interrogation and being “pressurised” to go against him.

Togadia, who referred to Modi as his “old friend,” urged the PM not to take steps that would eventually lead to killing of democracy. “Is this a crime branch or conspiracy branch? I have called my lawyer and shall initiate legal action against Crime Branch,” he said. He also alleged that the crime branch had partnered in many conspiracies in the past at Modi’s behest.