Godhra

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<b>Modi wants apology on Godhra</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->AHMEDABAD: Those who had spread lies to save the killers of the Godhra train carnage should apologise, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said after part of the report of the Nanavati Commission which enquired into the Gujarat violence of 2002 was made public.

Modi said these people were now too ashamed to show their face. If they value truth and justice, they should apologise to the people of Gujarat, he said. He was speaking Thursday evening after dedicating the Pandit Deen Dayal Road at the Kankaria area.
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"The bogus secular forces were shouting hoarse against us. Yet we kept our silence in the hope that the truth will come out one day and the secular mask will be ripped off the faces of these men," Modi said.

He said the formation and empanelling of the judges was done under the direction of the Supreme Court and neither he nor his government had any role to play.

<b>"If you have any evidence against me or my ministers then come out with it," </b>Modi said, adding the Nanavati panel report had proved where the truth lay. He also said vote bank politics was being played over the Godhra issue.

<b>"When there is an authorised commission inquiring into the riots how can the Congress appoint the U.C. Banerjee Commission?" Modi asked adding Congress was more concerned with its vote bank politics. "They wanted 'behn' to be happy,'"</b> Modi said in an apparent reference to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

The U.C. Banerjee Commission had said the Godhra incident was an accident contrary to the first part of the Nanavati Commission report, tabled in the assembly Thursday, which said it was a pre-planned conspiracy and not an accident.
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