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Modi's Urdu weekly interview:
SP distances from editor Shahid Siddiqui
Saturday July 28, 2012 05:32:49 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party (SP) Saturday clearly distanced itself from Shahid
Siddiqui, saying he had long ago quit the party and was not even a
primary member.
The SP’s stand on Siddiqui comes in the wake of his interviewing
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for Urdu newspaper “Nai
Duniya”, which he edits.
SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, in a statement, said: “The
party wants to clarify that Siddiqui had left SP long back and
joined BSP on whose ticket he contested Lok Sabha election from
Bijnor and later joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal.”
“Siddiqui is not a SP member and has nothing to do with the party.
Projecting him as SP leader is outrightly wrong,” Yadav said.
However, Siddiqui had reportedly rejoined SP in January this year,
ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in February-March.
Yadav’s statement was also backed by Azam Khan, another Samajwadi
Party leader and Uttar Pradesh minister, in Lucknow.
In the interview to “Nai Duniya” edition dated July 26, Modi told
Siddiqui that he would not apologise for the 2002 riots in Gujarat
and he would rather prefer to be hanged if found guilty for the
violence.
“If my government had done this (riots), I should be hanged in
public in such a way that it remains a lesson for the next 100
years so that nobody dares to do it,” Modi was quoted as saying in
the interview.
This statement was seen as an effort by Modi for an image makeover
by reaching out to the Muslim voters.
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