New Delhi: Congress vice-president and party’s head for election campaign committee Rahul Gandhi had attacked on the BJP’s PM candidate and Gujarat CM Narendra modi on Monday. He accused the government of Gujarat of ‘abetting’ religious riots in 2002.
A new tense has been generated for general election after the comment of Rahul Gandhi. Indians are due to vote by May in what many see as a direct contest between Gandhi and Modi.
Notify that record of Narendra Modi as chief minister of Gujarat has been overshadowed by the riots 12 years ago in which Hindu mobs killed at least 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. Rights groups and political rivals have long alleged he allowed or actively encouraged the attacks.
Meanwhile Modi has always denied this, and a Supreme Court inquiry found no evidence to prosecute him.
Rahul Gandhi said to media, “The government in Gujarat was actually abetting and pushing the riots further.” He also said that Narendra Modi and his government were responsible because he was chief minister of Gujarat at the time.
Rahul Gandhi said, “The government in Gujarat was allowing the riots to happen.”
Notify that Rahul Gandhi had warned earlier this month that opposition is trying to split India on religious lines. The majority of the country’s 1.25 billion people are Hindus but around 13% are Muslims.
Rahul Gandhi had also accused Modi of running his BJP like a one-man show, relying on his charisma rather than any particular policies.
Gandhi said, “The BJP believes in concentration of power in the hands of one person. I fundamentally disagree with that. I believe in democracy, I believe in opening up the system.”
Bureau Report
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