Sonia should give clarification on Batla issue: Uma Bharati

Banda: Firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharati today asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to clarify the nation whether she had wept on Batla encounter issue or not. “It is a sensitive issue and Gandhi should clarify to the nation whether she wept or not…I wept for policeman MC Sharma who died in the encounter,” she told an election meeting here. [caption id=“attachment_211745” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Reuters”]  [/caption] She was reacting to Law Minister Salman Khurshid’s claim that Batla House encounter picture brought tears into the eyes of Gandhi. Addressing an election meeting in Azamgarh on Thursday, Khurshid had said the pictures of the Batla encounter brought tears into the eyes of his party president, who asked him not to show her the pictures. However, party general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Digvijay Singh had rebutted Khurshid’s claim, saying, “Sonia never cried. These are Salman Khurshid’s words.” Khurshid also later clarified saying what he actually meant was that Gandhi had become “emotional” at seeing those photographs. PTI