Gujarat Elections : Narendra Modi’s controversial remarks have became fierce issue
Modi’s statement in an election campaign at Mangrol in Gujarat proved that at last he dared to say what he was subsiding all these days. Yes, Gujarat is back again to election now with hot issues which earlier seemed to be issueless.
During the election rally Modi while referring to Sonia who held Modi responsible for the communal disharmony and alleged him to be anti farmer and anti tribal, Modi said, “Sonia Gandhi spoke of terrorism. But she has no right to talk of this. Till today, the perpetrators of Parliament haven’t been sent to the gallows. And, Congress in Gujarat is raising its voice on the Sohrabuddin issue.”
“But, it should explain to the people what should be done to a man who stored illegal arms and ammunition? You tell me, what should have been done to Sohrabuddin?” he asked the crowd.
The crowd replied, “Kill him, kill him.”
“Well, that is it. Do I have to take Sonia Gandhi’s permission to do this? Hang me if I have done anything wrong,” Modi replied in response.
Sohrabuddin issue became highlighted after CBI investigation team submitted a report to the Apex Court alleging that the encounter was fake in which he died.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s controversial remarks over the death of Sohrabuddin have pushed senior advocate KTS Tulsi, who defended the state government in the Supreme Court in the fake encounter case, into declaring that he would opt out and return the brief.
Tulsi accused Modi of playing “ducks and drakes” with the rule of law and the apex court by making remarks justifying the extralegal killing.
“Unless the Chief Minister gives a suitable clarification and offers to apologise it is not possible for me to represent Gujarat government as Special Counsel,” Tulsi said.
Tulsi said he found that the affidavit filed by the state government in the Supreme Court had clearly stated that the killing of Sohrabuddin was a cold-blooded murder, stage managed in a fake encounter.
“It had said that the officers who had participated in the encounter had fabricated the evidence. The chargesheet has already been filed in the case and the statement by the CM on the way the suspected terrorist was dealt with is not acceptable to me,” Tulsi said.
“How can the chief minister take stand diametrically opposite to that of what was stated by the state government before the Court. The position of both the CM and the government becomes untenable,” Tulsi added.
Tulsi was reacting to Chief Minster’s justification of Sheikh’s killing in election speeches by saying he deserved such a fate.
Tulsi had emphatically told the Supreme Court that the state would spare no one involved in Sohrabuddin’s extralegal killing, and had persuaded the court not to order a CBI probe.
Compounding the problems for Modi, Sohrabuddin’s brother Rubabuddin, who had forced the state to take action against top police officers including DG Vanzara by filing a petition before the apex court, is in the process of moving the SC to seek Modi’s prosecution for being part of the conspiracy to kill his brother and his sister-in-law, Kauserbi.
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