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| Modi blames Pakistan for Gujarat violence |
| 2002-05-14 |
| Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused Pakistan of having opened a new front in Gujarat to get even with India which has given it drubbings in conventional wars in the past. He accused Pakistan of trying to sow the seeds of terrorism in Gujarat and create an atmosphere of mistrust amongst people of different faiths to devastate the state socially and economically, an official release quoting Modi said. The cheap pols on both sides of the border have the habit of blaming each other for their internal troubles, even when it looks like their own domestic loons are at the heart of the difficulties. Modi appealed to community leaders to see through this plan of the neighbouring country. He said the current turmoil in Gujarat was a conspiracy to tarnish the image of the state and country and create communal disharmony among people practising varied religions, Asking people to not allow anti-national elements controlled by inimical countries to decide who should be the chief minister in our states, Modi queried whether we were ready for a situation where our polity would be run by law violators like Dawood Ibrahim and Aftab Ansari. Seems like there's enough lunacy and bad faith on hand to make India look bad on this issue without any outside help. The Pak generals are probably sitting around Islamabad chuckling and high-fiving as Modi and his crew of hacks do their best to suppress the violence with one hand and make domestic political capital out of it with the other. This is a fight BJP lost as soon as they refused to distance themselves from the Brownshirts, much less round them up and beat them in public. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |