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Vol. XXXVI
No. 20 May 20, 2012 |
Reinvestigate Narendra Modi’s Role
The Polit Bureau
of the Communist
Party of India
(Marxist) issued the following statement on May 11, 2012.
THE report of the
Special
Investigation Team (SIT) on the communal violence and killings
in Gujarat in 2002 is flawed
and seeks to cover-up the
heinous role played by the Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The SIT report
concludes that
Narendra Modi saying that the Hindus should be allowed to vent
their anger does
not constitute an offence because it was said “within the four
walls of a room.”
According to the SIT’s strange logic, a chief minister
instructing senior
police officers not to intervene and act against the violence
is not a culpable
action nor dereliction of duty. Further, the report shockingly
provides a justification
for the mob violence which led to the ghastly killing of Ehsan
Jafri and others
in the Gulberg society housing attack, by giving credence to
the report that
Jafri provoked the mob by firing at them. This again is stated
by citing
Narendra Modi’s statement that “action” had led to “reaction.”
The SIT
investigation and report has
been vitiated by the lack of application of mind and by the
inability to
comprehend the premeditated actions of the executive in Gujarat.
The SIT findings exonerating Narendra Modi have been
questioned by the report
submitted to the Supreme Court by the Amicus Curiae. A fresh
investigation into
the role and actions of Narendra Modi should be conducted, so
that the truth
comes out and accountability is fixed.
