New Delhi: Congress on September 12 demanded imposition of President's rule in Gujarat saying that the Prime Minister should follow his "own raj dharma" in the wake of the "ringing and wide-ranging indictment" of the Narendra Modi government in the Best Bakery riot case.

"Government of India cannot be and should not be a mute witness and a passive spectator to the goings on in Gujarat and severe findings of the Supreme Court. Prime Minister should follow his own raj dharma by imposition of President's rule," party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.

He said the Supreme Court's observations were a resounding confirmation of the grave charges levelled by Human Rights organisation and the National Human Rights Commission about deliberate subversion and perversion of rule of law by the rulers in Gujarat.

Noting that the Apex Court had attacked the Gujarat government for filing an "eye wash" of an appeal in the case, Reddy said that the Court had faulted the state government for its gross failure in following raj dharma.

PTI