New Delhi, Aug 01: Opposition parties today welcomed the move by the National Human Rights Commission approaching the Supreme Court on the Best Bakery case describing it as a move to prevent "miscarriage" of justice and lashed out at the BJP for dubbing it as "anti-Hindu". "BJP has crossed all the limits today when it dubbed NHRC as an anti-Hindu institution. This shows the perverted and third rate mentality of the BJP leadership. They are trying to destroy constitutional institutions one after another,” Congress spokesman Satyavrata Chaturvedi said.

He said that the NHRC's filing a special leave petition in the apex court was very much within its jurisdiction and the Congress Party welcomed this move.

CPI-M leader Somnath Chatterjee said that the manner in which it was being attacked by "BJP president, BJP general secretary and even a Gujarat minister, reflected scantest regard for a constitutional body ... They are saying things which are totally derogatory and contemptuous".
CPI leader A B Bardhan said the "unprecedented" NHRC move is actuated by the "extraordinary" situation created in Gujarat under the BJP-VHP dispensation.

BJP spokesman V K Malhotra said the NHRC decision was perceived as "anti-Hindu" and a danger to the "federal" set up and expressed the hope that central government would take the "necessary" action.
Bureau Report