{"id":1075,"date":"2023-12-26T05:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T05:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gujaratriots.com\/gujaratriots\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2025-01-30T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:37:38","slug":"narendra-modi-told-police-officers-to-go-slow-on-hindus-in-the-27-feb-night-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gujaratriots.com\/gujaratriots\/2023\/12\/26\/narendra-modi-told-police-officers-to-go-slow-on-hindus-in-the-27-feb-night-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi told police officers to go slow on Hindus in the 27 Feb night meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1075\" class=\"elementor elementor-1075\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-da3f743 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"da3f743\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12598a4\" data-id=\"12598a4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1b9895 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f1b9895\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Fact<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><strong>I<\/strong><strong>s Narendra Modi a fool to openly give such orders to so many officials in such a meeting at Chief Minister&#8217;s Bunglow on 27 Feb 2002 late night, where any of the officers could have secretly recorded the orders or which would have created 8 witnesses against Narendra Modi? <\/strong>Even if he did want such orders to be issued, for argument\u2019s sake, there is no way in the world he would have given them in an official meeting; he would have done it through other communicators being careful not to come into the picture directly.<\/p><p>Also note here that the SIT appointed by the Supreme Court with judges like Arijit Pasayat and Aftab Alam (known to be anti-Modi) debunked the claim of Sanjiv Bhatt that he was present and blamed NGOs for forcibly trying to find something against Narendra Modi. This is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/93001838\/Congress-Teesta-Setalvad-Sanjiv-Bhatt-Times-of-India-colluded-against-Narendra-Modi-SIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">important report<\/a> of the SIT.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/93001838\/Congress-Teesta-Setalvad-Sanjiv-Bhatt-Times-of-India-colluded-against-Narendra-Modi-SIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/93001838\/Congress-Teesta-Setalvad-Sanjiv-Bhatt-Times-of-India-colluded-against-Narendra-Modi-SIT<\/a><\/p><p>This issue is given with comprehensive details in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Gujarat-Riots-True-Story-Truth\/dp\/1482841649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the book<\/a>&#8211; of Sanjiv Bhatt\u2019s claims as well as the SIT findings. Though all details are not given in this website, let us see many things.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>In that article \u201cChronology of a Crisis\u201d, <em>India Today <\/em>(18 March 2002) said:<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201c27<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong><strong>FEBRUARY<\/strong><strong>, 2002<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u2026<\/strong><strong>10:3<\/strong><strong>0 p.m.: <\/strong>CM holds meeting with senior government officials at Gandhinagar; orders curfew in sensitive places and <strong>pre-emptive arrests<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Now this shows that this meeting had indeed taken place on 27 February 2002 late night at 10:30 pm (not midnight, as claimed by some opponents of Narendra Modi, like <em>Outlook <\/em>once did). Secondly, this meeting was not at all kept secret (and denied having taken place) by the government. \u00a0But that was to discuss steps to <strong>control the violence<\/strong> which could possibly break out the next day.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Firstly, let us see the background of that crucial 27 February meeting. After the Godhra massacre on 27 February 2002 at around 8:00 a.m. Narendra Modi imposed curfew immediately (at 9:45 am) and issued shoot-at- sight orders in Godhra. 827 preventive arrests were made on his orders that night. We have already seen the steps taken by the government to control the violence. On 27 February the website rediff.com also reported that the State Government had taken all precautions and tightened security to prevent riots. 70,000 security men, RAF, CRPF etc were all deployed. In Godhra on 27 February evening, while talking to the electronic media, Narendra Modi made an appeal asking the people to maintain calm and not retaliate.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Considering all these facts, it would actually be sufficient to conclude that far from asking the administration to \u2018allow Hindus to vent their anger\u2019, what was discussed were steps to prevent and control the violence the next day in that 27<sup>th<\/sup> February meeting. That this indeed was the case is proved by the actual action of the police and the administration the next day, who did not allow Hindus to vent their anger and did their best to control the violence.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>WHO HAS ALLEGED THAT MODI TOLD THE POLICE TO ALLOW HINDUS TO RIOT? <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Weekly <em>Outlook <\/em>magazine (which is extremely anti-Narendra Modi) first <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210609040345\/https:\/\/magazine.outlookindia.com\/story\/a-plot-from-the-devils-lair\/215889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged in its issue dated 3 June 2002<\/a> that Modi told officials to allow Hindus to take revenge the next day in that crucial 27 February night meeting. URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210609040345\/https:\/\/magazine.outlookindia.com\/story\/a-plot-from-the-devils-lair\/215889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/magazine\/story\/a-plot-from-the-devils-lair\/215889<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 After this Narendra Modi sent it a defamation notice as <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/modi-serves-legal-notice-to-outlook\/articleshow\/12377091.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by various news outlets (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/m.rediff.com\/news\/2002\/jun\/08guj.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rediff.com<\/a><em>, Times of India <\/em>etc) on \u00a08 June 2002.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 There was a self-appointed Concerned Citizens Tribunal with no statutory authority headed by Retd. Supreme Court Judge, Justice Krishna Iyer (who was merely a figure-head), which conducted its own \u2018study\u2019 and report on the Gujarat riots and, as expected, held the government guilty. <strong>Sadly for it, it also made a fool of itself by trying to absolve Muslims of the crime of Godhra by suggesting that the fire was set \u2018from inside\u2019 (as if it was an inside job!) and denying outrightly that any mob had torched the train. <\/strong><em>Outlook <\/em>reported that a certain Gujarat Minister (at that time it did not name him, but after his murder named him as Haren Pandya) was interviewed by this CCT in May 2002 and he claimed that in that 27 February meeting, Modi told officials to allow Hindus to vent their anger.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 The <em>Outlook <\/em>reported in that article in its 3 June 2002 issue:<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u201cThe minister told <em>Outlook<\/em> that in his deposition<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (to the CCT)<\/span>, he revealed that on the night of 27<sup>th<\/sup> February, Modi summoned DGP (i.e. Director General of Police) K. Chakravarthy, Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad, P.C. Pandey, Chief Secretary, G. Subarao<strong>, <\/strong>Home Secretary, Ashok Narayan, Secretary to the Home Department, K. Nityanand (a serving police officer of IG rank on deputation) and DGP (IB) G.S. Raigar. Also present were officers from the CM\u2019s office: P.K. Mishra, Anil Mukhim and A.K. Sharma. The minister also told <em>Outlook <\/em>that the meeting was held at the CM\u2019s bungalow.<\/span> \u00a0<strong>(Notice that Sanjiv Bhatt comes nowhere in the picture!!!)<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993366;\">The minister told the tribunal <span style=\"color: #000000;\">(CCT)<\/span> that in the <strong>two-hour meeting<\/strong>, Modi made it clear there would be justice for Godhra the next day, during the VHP-called bandh. He ordered that the police should not come in the way of \u201cthe Hindu backlash\u201d. At one point in this briefing, according to the minister\u2019s statement to the tribunal, DGP Chakravarthy vehemently protested. But he was harshly told by Modi to shut up and obey. Commissioner Pandey, says the minister, would later show remorse in private but, at that meeting, didn\u2019t have the guts to object.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00a0\u00a0 According to the deposition, it was a typical Modi meeting: more orders than discussion. By the end of it, the CM ensured that his top officials\u2014especially the police\u2014would stay out of the way of <em>Sangh Parivar <\/em>men. The word was passed on to the mobs. (According to a top IB official, on the morning of 28<sup>th<\/sup> February, VHP and Bajrang Dal activists first visited some parts of Ahmedabad and created minor trouble just to check if the police did, in fact, look the other way. Once Modi\u2019s word was confirmed, the carnage began.)\u201d<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0 There are clear factual errors in this. The <em>Outlook <\/em>report names Chief Secretary, G. Subarao and an officer in the CM\u2019s office, A.K. Sharma, as among those at the meeting. <strong>Neither was present in that meeting. That day, Subarao was on leave abroad <\/strong>[This is also mentioned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/file\/gqr03wvk4guyo8u\/SIT_Final_Closure_Report-Full.pdf\/file\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIT in its report<\/a> on page 312] <strong>and instead it was acting Chief Secretary S.K. Varma, who participated in that meeting. <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/file\/gqr03wvk4guyo8u\/SIT_Final_Closure_Report-Full.pdf\/file\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIT report<\/a> says on page 58 that A K Sharma was on earned leave from 19 February to 5 March 2002 in connection with his sister\u2019s wedding and <strong>he too was not present<\/strong>. <strong>This goof-up alone is enough to dismiss the claims of <em>Outlook <\/em>on that meeting, or, assuming that the late Pandya did make such allegations, his. <\/strong><em>Outlook <\/em>realized its terrible goof-up and in the 19 August 2002 issue it acknowledged its error in its claimed interview with Pandya.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Let us assume that the late Minister Haren Pandya did tell <em>Outlook <\/em>that Modi told officials in that meeting to allow Hindus to vent their anger the next day. What credibility does Pandya have when he was not even present in that meeting? <strong>And when he could not even correctly tell the people who were in the meeting, how could he know what happened inside the meeting? He also said that it was a 2-hour meeting, while it lasted 30-45 minutes at maximum, as per the SIT report.<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Haren Pandya was demoted in the Ministry, from Home Minister to Minister of State for Revenue. There were reports of his personal grudge against the Chief Minister. It is said that after he became Chief Minister in October 2001, Narendra Modi wanted to contest a bypoll from Ellisbridge (which is one of the safest seats for the BJP in Gujarat and in the country) to enter the Assembly which was represented by Pandya. It is reported that Pandya refused to vacate this seat for Modi and, hence, Modi had to contest from Rajkot II, which Modi won.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Outloo<\/em><em>k <\/em>wanted to crucify Narendra Modi by hook or by crook, and in its 3 June 2002 issue it held Modi guilty without cross-checking if the information provided by Pandya was correct or not, assuming that Pandya did speak to <em>Outlook<\/em>. It was <em>Outlook\u2019<\/em>s duty to cross-check the facts before making such a serious allegation against a Chief Minister.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 If, for argument\u2019s sake, Modi wanted \u2018Justice for Godhra\u2019 as claimed allegedly by Pandya here, <strong>he wouldn\u2019t have imposed &#8216;shoot-at-sight&#8217; orders and curfew in Godhra<\/strong> on 27 February 2002. <strong>Street justice taking law in hands would have been allowing mobs to attack Muslims of Signal Falia area of Godhra, from where the killers came, <\/strong>instead of attacking Muslims in Naroda Patiya, Chamanpura and other areas of Gujarat, who had nothing to do with the Godhra massacre.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Outloo<\/em><em>k\u2019s <\/em>report depends only on Haren Pandya, whom it did not even name at that time, but after his murder in March 2003, it claimed that the man was indeed Haren Pandya. <em>Outlook <\/em>claims that it has a taped interview of Haren Pandya of August 2002. <em>Outloo<\/em>k too does not claim to have any record of the conversation with Pandya for its 3 June 2002 issue, it only claims to have for the 19 August 2002 issue. In its issue dated 19<sup>th<\/sup> August 2002, <em>Outlook <\/em>reports:<\/p><p>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00a0 \u201cModi\u2019s pet theory was that the man, who went to the tribunal, was his then revenue minister, Haren Pandya. He even asked his intelligence officials to get proof to nail Pandya. But the intelligence wing, <em>Outlook <\/em>learns, gave no conclusive proof to Modi. Yet, he sent Pandya a show-cause notice through the state BJP president, asking him to explain if and why and with whose permission he went to the tribunal. <strong>Pandya, in his sharp reply that unmistakably ridiculed Modi, denied he went to the tribunal.<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Neither <em>Outlook <\/em>nor the tribunal (CCT) have given any evidence that Pandya told them anything, and Pandya himself denied the charge! So, there is no proof in public domain that Haren Pandya ever made any allegations on Modi about that 27<sup>th <\/sup>February 2002 late night meeting.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But this writer does think that Pandya could have (and most likely did) deposed before the CCT and may have talked to<em> Outlook<\/em> for its 3 June 2002 issue as well. We are merely saying that <strong>there is no evidence to prove that Pandya ever said this<\/strong>, and <strong>claims made without evidence have no value.<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Link for <em>Outlook\u2019s <\/em>claimed interview with Pandya of August 2002 is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120812102044\/http:\/outlookindia.com\/article.aspx?216905\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120812102044\/http:\/\/outlookindia.com\/article.aspx?216905<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 In this interview in the 19 August 2002 issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191230134548\/https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/magazine\/story\/the-time-the-place-everything-was-correct\/216905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Outlook <\/em>reports<\/a>:<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> \u201c<strong>Ministe<\/strong><strong>r<\/strong> <strong>(<\/strong><strong><em>continuing<\/em><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>See, whatever I told you, it was not as if some disgruntled man was saying it. I didn\u2019t say all those things because I was unhappy.<\/span> <strong>(Our comment: That exactly was the reason- that he was unhappy! He had lost the Home Ministry!)<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #993366;\">There is nobody in my position who can fight him. So, it\u2019s important I remain an insider, in power, in position. \u00a0That\u2019s why I want my identity to be protected.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Yo<\/strong><strong>u mentioned Subarao. There was trouble with that. <\/strong><em>(The <\/em>Outlook <em>report named chief secretary G. Subarao and an officer in the CM\u2019s office, A.K. Sharma, as among those at the meeting. Neither was present.) <\/em><\/span>[These words in brackets are <em>Outlook\u2019s<\/em>, not ours.]<p>\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Minister<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>What happened was that there was a chief secretary- in-charge then. I got my facts mixed up. But listen, their denial was very weak, wasn\u2019t it? If they try to make an issue of it, tell them that you want the official denial from all the people mentioned in the story on paper, with their signatures. Leave the two they say weren\u2019t there at the meeting but ask the others to say that there was no meeting, no direct or indirect orders. Let them say that on paper with their signatures\u2026.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ministe<\/strong><strong>r (<em>continuing<\/em>): <\/strong>I made a mistake with the chief secretary\u2019s name. <strong>Bu<\/strong><strong>t the rest is all true. The time, the place, everything was correct. If they put pressure, ask them for official denial from the officers<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ministe<\/strong><strong>r (<em>continuing<\/em>): <\/strong>Vijay Rupani (who was supposed to organise the yatra) will give information on the (Gujarat) Gaurav<em> Rath Yatra<\/em>. But be careful when you meet these people. They are such guys that they\u2019ll try to extract my name from you. Be careful.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0And <em>Outlook <\/em>stuck to its story even after the clear goof-up. It admitted that it wrongly named two people as being present in the meeting. That should have been enough to dismiss this charge, when <em>Outlook <\/em>and an alleged Minister could not even correctly tell the names of the people who were present in the meeting. Then how could they know what happened inside that meeting?<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>So what <em>Outlook <\/em>said in effect was: \u201cThough we could not even tell correctly who were present, our charge that Modi ordered the police to allow Hindus to vent their anger is 100% true\u201d.<\/strong> A magazine with an iota of honesty would have said: \u201cWe relied on a man whose information was incorrect and who had personal grudges. We withdraw our story\u201d.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 But that\u2019s not all!<strong> Even in its 19<sup>th<\/sup> August issue, there are blunders. Haren Pandya says (as claimed by <em>Outlook<\/em>) \u201cI made a mistake with the chief secretary\u2019s name. But the rest is all true.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Bu<\/strong><strong>t the rest is also not all true. <\/strong>Not only was the chief secretary not there, another officer, A.K. Sharma was also not present. This was admitted by <em>Outlook<\/em>, not by the Minister. And there was a <strong>third blunder<\/strong> in this allegation even in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> August issue, which is that DGP (IB) G.C. Raigar was also not present in this meeting! <strong>Neither <em>Outlook <\/em>nor Pandya knew this<\/strong>.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 A single mistake is enough to dismiss these ridiculous claims. <strong>But the fact is that THREE people were wrongly named. <\/strong>Also note that it also mentioned the name wrongly- his name is G.C.Raiger, not G.S.Raiger. And the meeting did not last 2 hours either.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Also, note that the names mentioned by <em>Outlook<\/em>, of the people being present at the meeting do not include Sanjiv Bhatt at all! <strong>He is nowhere in the picture. <\/strong>Even <em>Outlook<\/em>, which forcibly tried to hold Modi guilty in that 27 February meeting, never even mentioned Sanjiv Bhatt. \u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 The only other police officer who has made allegations against Modi apart from Sanjiv Bhatt, is R. Sreekumar. Former Gujarat IPS officer, R.B. Sreekumar told the Nanavati Commission in an affidavit and later also the SIT that the then Director General of Police, V.K. Chakravarthy, who had participated in that crucial February 27 meeting, told him that the CM had directed officers to go slow against Hindu rioters and allow them to give vent to their feelings against the Muslims.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Sreekumar does not even claim that he was present in that meeting and that Modi gave such orders in front of him. He alleges that the then DGP, Chakravarthy told him so.<\/strong> There is absolutely no evidence that Chakravarthy told him (Sreekumar) so. If Chakravarthy told Sreekumar so, then he could easily have told some others, like <em>Outlook<\/em> or any other media outlet or the Nanavati Commission in private.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 However, what<strong> Chakravarthy and many other officials told the Nanavati Commission was exactly the opposite. They said Modi had told them to control the riots. <\/strong>Plus, Sreekumar started making anti-Modi charges in the case <strong>only after the government denied him promotion in 2005 on strong grounds<\/strong> (a pending criminal case against him)<strong> and made a person junior to him as the DGP. <\/strong>What\u2019s more,<strong> he did not make the same charge in his first two affidavits he filed in July 2002 and October 2004 before the Nanavati Commission, which he submitted before he was denied promotion. Chakravarthy also debunked Sreekumar\u2019s claim that he ever told any such thing to Sreekumar and outrightly denied telling this to him.<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Sreekumar\u2019s \u2018evidence\u2019 is absolutely nothing, since he was not present at all in that meeting, and he has no proof at all that Chakravarthy told him anything. And even if Chakravarthy told him anything, that would be no proof, since Chakravarthy has to tell it to the Nanavati Commission or the SIT. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/file\/gqr03wvk4guyo8u\/SIT_Final_Closure_Report-Full.pdf\/file\">SIT report<\/a> says on page 58: <span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2018The statement made by Shri R B Sreekumar is hearsay, which has not been confirmed by K Chakravarti. Shri R B Sreekumar has no personal knowledge, as he did not attend the said meeting.\u2019<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In his first affidavit before the Nanavati Commission which he filed on 15 July 2002, Sreekumar said: <span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u201cIt is appreciable that despite being heavily outnumbered, police took effective and decisive action, which is evident by the fact that 2200 persons were arrested in the first few days of which 1,800 were Hindus. The police firing in the first few days resulted in the death of nearly 100 people of whom 60 were Hindus. It is evident, therefore, that the police did not hesitate to use force to suppress the communal violence\u201d.<\/span> The affidavit also stated: <span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u201cNevertheless the response of the State Government to Godhra incident was immediate and prompt. The rescue and rehabilitation efforts commenced instantaneously. The Chief Minister, senior Ministers and other officials visited the scene.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 He also stated similarly in his second affidavit filed on 6 October 2004.<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 However, in his third affidavit which was filed on 9 April 2005 after he was denied promotion in February 2005, owing to a pending criminal case against him initiated by the JMFC, Bhuj and his junior K R Kaushik made Director General of Police, he completely changed his statement and blamed the State Government, political leaders and Gujarat police for communal riots and even for his harassment and victimization. Only after he was denied promotion.<\/p><p>\u00a0 In short, let us mention the people who are supposed to have alleged that Modi told the officials to allow Hindus to vent their anger the next day. They are:<\/p><ol><li><strong>Sanjiv Bhatt. <\/strong>He has no credibility, was not present at that 27<sup>th<\/sup> <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>February, 2002 meeting. No one, including Modi\u2019s biggest enemies like <em>Tehelka <\/em>and <em>Outlook, <\/em>while trying to crucify Modi, ever claimed for nine years after that meeting that he was present. This man has a very terrible past and has serious cases against him. He was absent from duty for many days in 2011 without any reason and when he was finally suspended, tried to become a \u2018martyr\u2019. We will see the claim of he being present in that 27 February meeting in detail later in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Gujarat-Riots-True-Story-Truth\/dp\/1482841649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chapter on the SIT report<\/a> of the book.<\/li><li><strong>R. Sreekumar. <\/strong>He too was not present and did not even claim to have been present at that 27<sup>th<\/sup> February meeting.<\/li><li><strong>Haren Pandya. <\/strong>There is, in fact, no proof in public forum that he ever made any such allegation. He did not claim to <em>Outlook<\/em> to have been present in the meeting himself, and admitted errors in naming people who were present. There were alleged differences between Narendra Modi and Haren Pandya. He was first demoted in the ministerial portfolio (and then later denied a ticket in assembly polls of December 2002). Owing to these issues, Haren Pandya <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2002\/aug\/06guj.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> from the Gujarat Cabinet in August 2002. This clearly shows that there were personal and other matters which could have prompted Pandya to speak against Narendra Modi. <strong>The SIT also says on page 240 that<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u201cAlso relevant here is the <strong>strained relationship between him (Haren Pandya) and Shri Narendra Modi<\/strong>, a fact revealed by late Pandya\u2019s father late Vithalbhai Pandya.\u201d<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Also<\/strong><strong>, note that many activists had alleged that Pandya himself was involved in an attack on a <em>dargah <\/em>in the 2002 riots. <\/strong>But after his murder in March 2003, for which Muslims were convicted, or ever after he started speaking against Narendra Modi in 2002 itself (on personal grudges) a section of the media immediately took to him as a \u2018hero\u2019, forgetting its allegations on him! \u00a0Pandya allegedly took the leadership on the next or 2<sup>nd<\/sup> next day of the Godhra carnage, to demolish a <em>dargah <\/em>which was protruding on the main road of Bhathha (Paldi) in Ahmedabad, not far away from his own house. [It may have had to be demolished by the Municipality anyway.] Thereafter, he started the double talk against the government for \u2018not protecting the minority\u2019. The demolition, he allegedly did, brought him on the top of the hit list, and therefore, he was killed.<\/p><p>\u00a0 But his strategy of targeting Modi worked wonders for him-the anti-Modi media largely forgot charges on him and took to him as a \u2018hero\u2019. This also shows that the biased section of the media will make a hero out of anyone who targets Narendra Modi without judging the case on merits.<\/p><p>\u00a0 <strong>Tha<\/strong><strong>t is, not even one person who was actually present at that meeting has alleged that Narendra Modi told them to allow Hindus to vent their anger<\/strong>. All those who were present, like the then DGP Chakravarthy, have reported that Modi told them exactly the opposite, to control the riots. <strong>All those, who have alleged that Modi told officials to go slow at that meeting, were not even present at that meeting, neither Sanjiv Bhatt, nor R. Sreekumar, nor, if he did, the late Haren Pandya.<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 Let us say, for argument\u2019s sake, that Modi did tell the officials at that crucial meeting on 27<sup>th<\/sup> February night to go slow on Hindus. But did they do so the next day? Not at all. We have seen all details of what the police actually did. \u00a0If the police had really allowed Hindus to vent their anger, the media would have gone crazy on 28<sup>th<\/sup> February itself in its reports of 1<sup>st<\/sup> March 2002.<\/p><div class=\"elementor elementor-67\" data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"67\"><section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c1b9781 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c1b9781\" data-element_type=\"section\"><div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\"><div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-02bbbbc\" data-id=\"02bbbbc\" data-element_type=\"column\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\"><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd9707f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd9707f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>To read the full chapter, read the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Gujarat-Riots-True-Story-Truth\/dp\/1482841649\/\">\u201cGujarat Riots: The True Story\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Gujarat-Riots-True-Story-Truth\/dp\/1482841649\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Gujarat-Riots-True-Story-Truth\/dp\/1482841649\/<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Copyright \u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gujaratriots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gujaratriots.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>________________________________________________________________<\/p><p>You can follow us on twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gujaratriotscom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gujaratriotscom<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p>After numerous requests from readers, we have opened a Facebook page as well, on 17 Feb 2014. 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