Congress leader Ahmed Patel demands impartial proble into his alleged links with suspected IS terrorist

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel has demanded an impartial probe into his alleged links with a suspected Islamic State operative arrested in Gujarat. Mr Patel, political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, is in the eye of a political storm after the arrest of the two suspected IS operatives from Surat.

One of them was Kasim Stimberwala who worked at Sardar



Patel Hospital in Bharuch district, Mr where Patel was a trustee. In a letter to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, he said the BJP was trying to malign his image by dragging his name in the case. 

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had on Friday demanded Patel's resignation and had asked him to explain the circumstances behind the hiring of Kasim.