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>[bJP News]: "BJP is unstoppablein Gujarat" : Modi

>Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:53:09 -0700

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>Title: "BJP is unstoppablein Gujarat" : Modi

>Publictaion: Rediff.com

>August 27, 2002

>URL:http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/aug/27inter.htm

>

>As the Supreme Court begins hearing the Presidential reference on the

>Election Commission's controversial order on the Gujarat assembly election,

>state Chief Minister Narendra Modi is once again in the eye of the storm

>because of his remarks against Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh.

>

>Modi criticised the CEC for rejecting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's

>demand for an early election, and hinted at Lyngdoh's Christian background

>as a factor influencing his decision.

>

>Six months after the Godhra incident, a confident Modi tells Senior Editor

>Sheela Bhatt that postponing the election will not prevent his party's

>return to power.

>

>Mr Modi, it is absolutely clear the investigations into the riot cases are

>not being done properly. You are hurling figures of arrests made by the

>police at us but it is of no use when the real culprits of the Naroda

>Patia, Gulmurg society, Randhikpur and Limadia Chawkdi cases are not

>arrested.

>

>It would be better if you compare the event of Gujarat and other past

>events of violence in the country. Compare the events, follow-up

>investigations, its modus operandi, number of arrests and the chargesheets.

>Take 25 such cases. After doing a comparison if you think we are

>deliberately doing something wrong then expose us.

>

>In former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri's murder the chargesheet says he fired on

>the crowd and two people died. Which, in turn, provoked the mob to set him

>and others on fire. How can the police interpret an event like this?

>

>Can’t you wait? The case will be heard by the courts, right? In this

>country we do have a justice system. In this country you buy an argument

>when someone claims that just because a few karsevaks didn’t pay the money

>for the tea they bought, it led to the torching of the # S6 compartment.

>This is possible and you consider it valid. But when the police

>investigates the case and puts forward the case, you consider it invalid.

>Don't you have a biased mind?

>

>All over the world you circulate the e-mail narrating a fictitious event

>which claims a girl was abducted on the platform, she was raped and that

>lead to the torching of S6. You can show that within just three minutes all

>this is possible. For people like you the question should be: Whom do you

>trust? Now the matter is with the judiciary and an inquiry commission. How

>long will you continue with a media trial?

>

>I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. The West believes in [Nazi

>propaganda minister Josef] Goebbels. Speak a lie 100 times and it will

>become a truth. I am brought up in a civilisation where Satyameva Jayate

>[Truth always prevails] is taught. I am not worried. The truth will

>certainly be known.

>

>Socio-political analyst Ashis Nandy met you almost a decade ago. After the

>meeting he called you a 'textbook fascist.' Many people in the country find

>your body language quite offensive. The way you ridiculed Chief Election

>Commissioner J M Lyngdoh at a public meeting in Bodeli proves that point.

>In the presence of one lakh people I gave a speech. It is on tape. I

>haven’t leveled any allegation against him.

>

>How can you ask a constitutional authority if he is born in Italy or not?

>I haven't said it. Hear my speech properly. I quoted people and

>journalists. They asked me if he is born in Italy. I told them "I don't

>know." I just narrated that incident in my speech.

>

>Isn't this divisive politics? Where do you want to lead this country?

>As far as the BJP is concerned, our belief has been the same for years.

>Justice to all, appeasement of none. We cannot support divisive politics.

>We strongly believe in President A P J Abdul Kalam when he says we need

>'unity of minds.' People who played the politics of appeasement have ruined

>the country, not us. Blame them.

>

>Do you think whenever the Gujarat election is held, it will be a very

>crucial election?

>No. I don't believe so. Every election is made out to be a crucial election

>as if it is a question of life or death. In my life I don't consider any

>event as the last event. I always believe there is no full stop in life.

>

>The election is delayed, so you will have to wait.

>Whenever the election is held, it is no issue with me. It is not an issue

>to worry about. Let the election come today, in November, let it come in

>January 2013. The BJP's win in Gujarat is unstoppable.

>

>You should ask people to be remorseful for what happened in Gujarat;

>instead you talk about the pride of Gujarat.

>I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in

>just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be

>countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes

>scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?

>

>What do you make of Shankarsinh Vaghela leading the Congress?

>A sinking Congress is banking on a straw. The Congress had no leadership of

>its own so they have given its top post to a [former] BJP man.

>

>Do you see a Hindutva wave in Gujarat?

>Gujaratis have decided to teach a lesson to the merchants of death. They

>will not allow Gujarat to be taken over by them. Gujarat is a border state

>and we can't allow the weakening of our security.

>

>Will this election be fought on a Hindutva versus casteist card?

>In Gujarat, the poison of casteism was injected in the name of the KHAM

>[Kshatriyas, Harijans, Adivasis and Muslims] theory. Gujaratis rejected it

>and turned towards the unity of society. Casteist forces have been rejected

>in Gujarat, the people's mood is anti-casteist.

>

>What is the economic scenario in the state after the riots?

>After Godhra we received Rs 8,000 crore worth direct foreign investment.

>General Motors, Shell, British Gas Company...

>

>People who know you well claim you are not really a believer of Hindutva.

>We have been taught cultural nationalism. We don't distinguish between

>Hindu rashtra and Bharat rashtra. I believe no Hindu can be anti-secular. I

>am secular. We believe God is one, there are different roads that lead to

>him. But you are not interested in debating Hindutva. Your reference point

>while talking about Hindutva is communal violence or Imam Bukhari.

>

>The Gujarat riots have damaged our stand on coercive diplomacy.

>Absolutely wrong. It has strengthened our stand. What happened in Godhra

>supports our contention how innocents are being killed ruthlessly. Gujarat

>has helped India convince the world community how terrorism is damaging us.

>

>I am talking about the riots that followed.

>I told you that no civil society can accept this. The innocent Sikh was

>murdered after 9/11. Why? Because he looked like the terrorists. If the

>educated in America can get provoked, why use a different yardstick to

>evaluate Gujaratis?

>

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