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BJP tells DMK not to over-react to Jain ATR

The Bharatiya Janata Party today cautioned the Dravidra Munnetra Kazhagam not to over-react to the Action Taken Report on the Jain Commission report, and felt the Congress was shadow-boxing.

Briefing newsmen in New Delhi, BJP general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu, strongly refuted the DMK's allegation that the BJP had implicated it in the conspiracy in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination under ''pressure'' from its allies.

''The BJP has nothing to hide or fear. We want the total truth to come out,'' and the BJP does not bow to any pressure tactics. It was not under pressure from any of its allies, he said.

When the Jain Commission makes a suggestion to set up a multi- disciplinary probe agency, how can it be termed as political and fraud? ''There is no question of our tampering with the report,'' he asserted.

As regards the Congress reaction, Naidu said it should pose all the questions it is raising today to the former home minister since they were in power at that time (between 1991-96). It was the Congress which had withheld vital documents from the Commission for four years. Arjun Singh, who had resigned from the Cabinet in December 1994, had said, ''It was a sinister design to cover up the matter.''

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