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Is Modi expiating for 2002 riots with his fast: Congress
Saturday January 21, 2012 12:54:37 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Congress Friday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's
Sadbhavna mission fast at Godhra "lacked sincerity of purpose" and
wondered if he was expiating for the 2002 communal riots in the
state.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused Modi of
speaking with "a forked tongue" and trying to gain cheap political
mileage.
"Is he by any chance expiating for the sins of his government
during whose tenure over 2,000 lost their lives? Is he expiating
for the fact that prosecutions and actions taken were not
impartial and objective and therefore, hundreds of cases were
transferred out of Gujarat by the Hon'ble Supreme Court? So the
moment he clarifies, we will be able to comment," Singhvi said.
He said Modi's "so-called fast" lacked "sincerity of purpose".
"So long as he does not have sincerity of purpose, it is no point
practicing political drama because you cannot fool even some of
the people some of the times," Singhvi said.
Modi staged a daylong hunger strike as part of his 'Sadbhavna'
fast in Godhra and said his state had shown that the politics of
development can work.
Modi's fast comes nearly a month ahead of the 10th anniversary of
the Godhra train burning and the communal riots that followed in
the state, in which over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were
killed.
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