An alleged ISIS operative's claim that he was in Batla House when an encounter took place there in 2008 today prompted BJP to attack Congress over its "vote bank" politics, saying the opposition party stands "exposed".
Referring to the then suggestions of some Congress leaders, including Digvijay Singh, that the encounter was fake, BJP said its stand that it was "genuine" has been vindicated.
The ISIS operative, who is believed to be from Thane, has said in a recent video that he had fled the encounter site when police raided it.
"Pseudo seculars had supported this theory about Batla house encounter being fake. They have been unmasked while the stand of BJP has been vindicated," BJP's national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.
It has been again "proved" the vote bank politics and not national security was the Congress' priority and that is why it "ignored" truth in Ishrat Jahan case and compromised national interest for politics reasons, he said.
He said Congress has always used terror cases as a politics tool and "compromised" national security.
The role of 'saffron terror' as claimed by Congress in Samjhauta and Malegaon blasts cases was an outcome of this, he alleged.
