In the wake of the SIT finding that the Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake and staged, the Welfare Party of India has asked the BJP leadership to sack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. As per Gujarat police version, Ishrat Jahan, the teenaged college student and three others alleged to be Lashkar-e-Tayyiba operatives were on a mission to assassinate Modi and were gunned down in an encounter on Jun 15, 2004.
Dr. S.Q.R. Ilyas, WPI General Secretary, alleged that it seems that more than the greed of the police personnel to get rewards and promotions, it was part of a larger design to create sympathy wave and raise the worst-hit graph of the BJP Chief Minister due to the communal pogrom of 2002 that killed thousands, most of them Muslims. On the background of the new findings, Ilyas asked the BJP leadership, if it adheres to the rule of law, has the slightest concern for human values and dignity and claims to be a party with a difference, it should immediately sack the Chief Minister. He further asked the central government to hold inquiry into all encounters, especially the Batla House incident that took place on Sep 19, 2008 in which two youth and a police officer were killed.