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Maya playing caste politics over HC judge, says Congress TNN 21 December 2009, 01:45am IST NEW DELHI: Taking exception to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati's claim that the move to impeach Justice P D Dinakaran was an attempt to victimise a dalit, Congress on Sunday accused her of doing caste politics over a serious and sensitive issue. "Congress does not see the issue in terms of caste, community or religion," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said. He cautioned that there was "no need to inject political motives into the constitutional process". Deploring Mayawati's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in this context, he said the Dinakaran issue was "in the judicial domain and was also part of the constitutional process". Singhvi said the process had adequate safeguards and "provided full opportunity at each stage to the individual concerned". Asked about some Congress MPs being equally vocal about Dinakaran's "victimisation" because of his dalit identity, Singhvi termed such utterances as "individual views". His party colleague Manish Tiwari pointed out that Mayawati should have waited until the inquiry committee, to be constituted by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, arrived at a decision. "There is no need to tilt at windmills at this stage," he said.
