'Modi can hold highest post in India'
India Blooms News Service
New Delhi, Mar 20 (IBNS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is a ‘role model for development’, a day before he is to appear before the Supreme Court’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) over the 2002 communal riots.
"Modi is a big leader of BJP. The riot case summons to Modi makes no difference; he still remains a role model for development for the entire nation,” Gadkari told a private news channel.
He further said: “There is no reason why Modi can’t hold the highest political post (Prime Minister) of India one day.”
On March 11, the SIT issued summons to Modi to appear before it on March 21 for questioning on the 2002 communal riots.
For the first time ever Modi has been summoned by the SIT in the Gujarat riot cases.
SIT chief RK Raghavan had said, “I can only comment that this summon is in compliance to the petition filed by Zakia Jaffery. We are calling him mainly on that and March 21 is the date that we have asked him to appear before the court. We want to know Modi’s response.”
Zakia Jaffery is the widow of Ehsan Jaffrey, former Congress Member of Parliament, who was killed during the Gulberg Society riots in Gujarat on February 28, 2002. She had filed a 100-page complaint to the SIT naming Modi.
“Narendra Modi had issued instructions to the police and security establishments to remain inactive and allow a free run to rioters. That's why the police didn't act,” Jaffery told media.
The infamous Gujarat riots of 2002 left hundreds of Muslims dead, injured and tortured and came as a blot in the BJP rule. The riots followed an incident of train burning in Godhra in which Hindus returning from Ayodhya were killed by a Muslim mob.
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