Congress today dubbed the Prakash Singh Committee report into widespread violence in Haryana during the Jat pro-quota stir as "operation cover up" and demanded a time-bound probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge.
"The report of Prakash Singh, who was brought from RSS-affiliated Vivekananda Foundation to investigate into the riots (has) turned out to be 'operation cover up' to help BJP and (is) much ado about nothing," the party's chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said.
Surjewala claimed the Prakash Singh Committee, "which is bereft of any legal or constitutional sanction", has prepared its report to serve the "vested and partisan interest" of the Khattar government in Haryana.
"No wonder the report maintains a conspiratorial silence on the suspected role of the BJP ministers and leaders in the entire episode," he said
He said, "Shockingly, it also gives a clean chit to the state CID, one department that utterly and miserably failed to forewarn about the riots and possible damage."
Making a strong pitch for a time-bound investigation by a sitting Supreme Court judge, he said responsibility must be fixed and action taken against the guilty.
He wanted full compensation given to all those who lost their properties and lives during the violence.
