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>[bJP News]: "All you want a magic wand in Gujarat": Modi

>Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:17:41 -0700

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>Title: "All you want a magic wand in Gujarat": Modi

>Publication: Rediff.com

>August 28, 2002

>URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/aug/28inter1.htm

>

>Senior Editor Sheela Bhatt's interview with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra

>Modi continues:

>

>Don't you think that as chief minister of both the Muslims and Hindus of

>Gujarat, you must first bridge the distance between the two communities?

>I had gone to Vankaner after the riots. The Muslim society had organised a

>function to felicitate me. 15,000 Muslims were there. Congress MLA Kadir

>Pirzada was chairing the meeting. Look at the level of hatred! He was

>sacked from the party for attending my function. Can any society function

>in this manner?

>

>Sensible people ask why can't politics wait in Gujarat so that the pain can

>first be cured?

>We too are saying so. Don't hurt us any more and let the people decide. Let

>this chapter end. Let the curtain go down. The Congress doesn't want it.

>They know they have lost Gujarat but they want advantage outside Gujarat. A

>conspiracy is on to defame Gujarat internationally.

>

>Ehsan Jafri's daughter was alive and doing well in US, at that time here it

>was said she was raped. If such lies are used to defame Gujarat then it is

>my duty to fight back for Gujarat. If you want to assess rehabilitation

>work, do it properly. After 1970 more then 440 riots have taken place.

>These are the first riots where an all party committee has been formed

>under the governor's chairmanship.

>This is the first time a rehabilitation project has been made. In the past

>not even a paisa was spent on victims. Even today we are witnessing

>processions taken out by victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Even after 15

>years, the problems of Kashmiri Pandits in J&K are unattended. And all of

>you want a magic wand in Gujarat.

>

>Whatever I do, whatever decision I take is weighed with reference to

>Godhra. Even if I transfer a government employee it is seen in connection

>with the riots.

>

>When someone visits Gujarat it is the riots they talk about.

>

>Even after four months if you can’t stop politicising the events, we can’t

>help. It badly affects the development of Gujarat. Even if investors are

>considering us, they will be confused. I could have continued in power.

>Look, people who criticise me have one viewpoint. I have another. But who

>should decide the case ultimately? The people. So I opted for a poll.

>

>I am not in a hurry. Let the people select their leader in their own time.

>Let us decide this once and for all.

>

>After the election a new thought process will start. Shriman Lyngdoh claims

>in his report that this government has lost the confidence of the people.

>What is the best way out? Let people decide who has the confidence of the

>people. He should displace me through an election. Why is he not giving us

>an early election? In democracy why is he allowing a person like me to

>continue in office? He should show me the door if he believes in what he

>writes.

>

>Your critics allege you want an election for a very simple reason -- to

>encash the provoked feelings of the Hindus.

>So you believe now… that Hindus were provoked after Godhra. On the other

>hand you allege that all these riots are the government’s handiwork. When

>it comes to the election issue you accept that Hindus are provoked and in

>routine course you blame the government for the riots. You should decide

>before you judge us.

>

>Is the BJP not playing the Hindu card?

>I need not waste my energy to explain this. I just have to spread out the

>facts. Let me tell you this country is not going to get divided on the

>Hindutva issue. In Gujarat I am not talking of Hindutva. I am talking of

>swabhiman [self pride]. In the election I’ll talk about the pride of

>Gujaratis.

>

>I will be talking of that Gujarat which many centuries ago accepted Parsis.

>I want to drive my people towards that glorious identity of Gujarat. Those

>people are perverted who are not looking beyond Godhra. These mentally

>retarded people are the problem of India.

>

>A few of your supporters think you are a potential candidate for the

>country’s top post.

>I never imagined that one day I would become chief minister. I am not the

>right man for this. I am a person who belongs to the organisation and the

>cadre. I am a person who would like to work behind the scenes.

>

>What is your analysis of the fight between the Congress and BJP?

>Look, Gujarat has a distinct mood. The Congress doesn’t suit the mood of

>Gujarat. It’s a case of mismatch. The Congress is doing various caste

>experiments. KHAM [Kshatriyas, Harijans, Adivasis and Muslims] was one of

>them which could not survive for long. The Congress doesn’t understand the

>minds of Gujaratis. The Gujarat Congress is going the way it has been in

>Uttar Pradesh. Gujarat does not have a third force, otherwise the Congress

>would go to the 4th or 5th place.

>The same Gujaratis fought a battle against Chimanbhai Patel [former Gujarat

>chief minister]. It was not a communal divide. Gujaratis have habit of

>speaking against injustice. I have understood the qualities of Gujaratis

>and that’s the focus of my proposed Gaurav Yatra

>.

>Your Gaurav Yatra skirts the main issue… why did Gujaratis indulge in such

>horrible violence?

>I am taught that what happened in 1947 and the painful events of that time

>should not be remembered again and again. The Mumbai blasts should be not

>reminded of again where so many innocents died. Secularists taught this to

>us.

>Now when Gujarat has happened they don’t want to lessen our pain. Let the

>secularists decide whether we should go back to revive our memory of 1947.

>Shall we keep talking about the people killed in the Mumbai bomb blasts?

>Shall we keep talking about the innocents killed in J&K? I believe that in

>the life of any person or in society, weak moments do occur. But to achieve

>the best, you have to think of the best.

>

>One of the best moments for Gujarat was when Parsis came to the state. In

>these times I would re-establish Gujarati’s pride, which is at stake.

>