New Delhi, Jul 24 (IANS): Home Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday said the BJP's anger at the CBI for charge-sheeting Gujarat minister Amit Shah was not justified and they should have reacted in January when the Supreme Court gave the directive seeking a probe into Shah's role in the 2005 killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
"The (Bharatiya Janata Party) BJP should have spoken out on Amit Shah in January. Why belated anger by the BJP now," Chidambaram asked, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the National Development Council meeting here.
"This," he said, "was a Supreme Court directive and at least BJP leader Arun Jaitley should have read it. He is a lawyer. He should have raised it and they should have raised it in January, why raise it now?"
Shah who Saturday resigned as the Gujarat minister of state for home is being hunted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his role in the 2005 killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, 37, and his wife in an alleged fake shootout.
The BJP has accused the Congress of a witch hunt against Shah for "vote bank politics" and even called off a planned lunch with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday.