BJP and its proxies are misleading the people of India that Modi ji fully cooperated in the SIT inquiry

Spokesperson: Shri Shaktisinh Gohil, MP (RS): He said that the BJP and its proxies are attempting to mislead the people of India by claiming that Shri Narendra Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister had appeared before the SIT probing the 2002 Gujarat riots without making a hue and cry. The fact is that Modi ji had responded as strongly as he could in Gujarat, but the senior BJP leadership had chosen to distance itself from him and failed to support him nationwide as he wanted. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s publicly-voiced concerns in 2002 over the Chief Minister’s abject failure to observe Rajdharma played an important role in Modi Ji’s isolation at the time. His minions today are making a virtue out of necessity.

In Gujarat, Mr. Modi’s response was immediate. The BJP had slogans written criticising the Congress party, the UPA government and the then Governor of Gujarat all across the state. The state BJP had also taken out processions and indulged in sloganeering at various locations. It also engaged in a campaign of calumny against the then Gujarat Governor Smt. Kamla Beniwal who had taken part in the Freedom Struggle as a young woman and was a committed Gandhian.

The 80-years old Governor had no role in the SIT’s summoning of the Chief Minister but the petty BJP had slanderous slogans written against her.

It is also incorrect to claim that Modi ji fully cooperated with the SIT. On the contrary, a BJP MLA pleaded before the High Court that SIT had no right to call any witness or any person named in the FIR and demanded a stay on the SIT summons. Both the High Court and the Supreme Court rejected this petition, after which an isolated Modi ji was forced to appear before the SIT.

It should also be clear that the UPA government had never summoned Modi ji or Shri Amit Shah through its agencies or through any SIT formed by the government. The fact is that the Supreme Court and the High Court had constituted the SIT that had summoned Modi ji and that the UPA had no role in it. Monday, July 25, 2022