http://www.countercurrents.org/engineer050311.htm
" ... In the Godhra case alone more than 100 persons were arrested
under the charge of conspiracy some of whom died and 63, who spent 9
years in jail, were released by the court. Who will compensate them
for precious loss of these years in prison? The Police in Modi
Government arbitrarily picked up people and put them under POTA. I
cannot forget the cries of a woman in public hearing in Hyderabad
whose three sons were arrested in the so called Godhra conspiracy case
and who has been released by the court. She was crying why POTA has
taken away my sons, please tell POTA my sons are innocent. She swooned
while crying. Obviously she did not know what the POTA was and thought
it is name of some person. Her husband could not bear the tragedy and
passed away after 4 years of his sons’ arrest. Every body in the
audience was crying and I too could not hold up my tears when the
woman was crying. Who can compensate her and her three sons for this
loss?
What is more matter of concern is that while innocent people who
have suffered so much already including those whose near and dear ones
were burnt alive in Sabarmati Express those who are really guilty are
enjoying power. Is this our secular democracy that those who incite
religious sentiments enjoy power and those who sweat and toil for
their daily existence loose their lives or suffer imprisonment for
years? Can it fit into any human rights norms, let alone our secular
political philosophy?
And what is worse Mr. L.K.Advani is not even being tried for
demolition of Babri Masjid but for making provocative speech near
Babri Masjid. That case was also withdrawn and now CBI has again
applied for reviving the case. The CBI was as much pliant to the NDA
Government as the BJP never tires of accusing the Congress of. It was
under Home Ministership of Mr. Advani that such cases against him were
withdrawn by the CBI.
In the first place Mr. Advani should not have been made Home
Minister, much less becoming Deputy Prime Minister when he was being
tried in the court of law by CBI which works under the home ministry.
But anything can happen in democratic India. And still BJP has
temerity of accusing the Congress of misusing CBI. This writer has
nothing to do with the Congress and the Congress cannot be said to be
above board at all. I am only pointing out double standards of the
BJP.
Mr. Narendra Modi, less said the better. It is important to ask in
his case what is good governance? To kill 2000 innocent people and
rape scores of women, including pregnant women and to win power by
inciting religious sentiment and to polarize people on religious
grounds? For TATAs and Ambanis and other big industrialists it may
amount to good governance but for common people it amounts to hell.
The Gujarat carnage, whatever Mr. Modi now does, cannot be
forgotten and will go down in history as occurrence of greatest shame
for secular India. Mr. Advani, who fights election from Gujarat, keeps
on praising Modi on every possible occasion but it only adds to the
gravity and criminality of the matter.
Even SIT (Special Investigation Team) appointed by the Supreme
Court, though could not give clean chit to Mr. Modi but wriggled out
by saying there is not enough evidence to try him. The SIT report
published in Tehelka is damaging enough. If the SIT had proceeded
further on that basis it could have surely found evidence to try
Mr.Modi. Without Modi’s complicity riots could not have lasted even
for 24 hours, let alone three months.
The cases of Bihar under Lalu Prasad and West Bengal under the
Left Government clearly show, if any proof is needed, that no communal
riot can last more than 24 hours without the state complicity. Can
then Narendra Modi be exonerated of his complicity in riots? In no
way. And SIT report and other investigative reports clearly indict him
beyond any doubt. If his dark spot on the fair name of secularism is
to be washed away the really guilty must be held accountable in any
case.
Technicalities should not become an excuse to exonerate these
people who have ruined the lives of thousands of people for ever. If
these people can enjoy power by accusing innocent people of
‘conspiracy without any solid ground, can really guilty be not tried
on very sound ground. Let us hope the Supreme Court will issue further
directives to SIT or any other agencies to collect proper evidence
against the guilty men of Gujarat. Most of the police high officers
who did what the Government of Gujarat wanted them to do should also
not be allowed to escape and must be held responsible.
These high officials cannot get away by saying they carried out
orders of the Government. Their first duty is towards the Constitution
of India and no unconstitutional orders can be followed. My experience
in last forty five years of my work for communal harmony shows that
communal violence cannot stop in this country unless the guilty people
are given exemplary punishment. It is no use small fish being shown
the stick and big fish enjoys all the benefits of inciting communal
violence.
Let us all hope that one day it will happen and certainly so if
the civil society shows proper awareness. It is fragmented civil
society which allows such benefits of provoking communal sentiments by
few politicians. Gujarat then certainly cannot repeat."
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