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<!--emo&:grenade--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/grenade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='grenade.gif' /><!--endemo--> Congress defaming Hindus of Gujarat: Narendra Modi
5 Dec 2007, 1757 hrs IST,PTI
GODHRA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday charged the Congress with defaming Hindus of the state by calling them terrorists (antakwadis), a day after he justified the encounter of Sohrabbudin.
"The Congress was defaming Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel by calling Hindus of Gujarat terrorists (antakwadis)," he said in an election meeting at Godhra, the sensitive town where the attack on Sabarmati Express train on February 27, 2002 leading to the worst-ever communal riots in the history of the state.
Modi was referring to Congress leader Digvijay Singh's statement here on Sunday in which the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister had said that there was Hindu extremism in Gujarat.
To make the crowd responsive to his plank, Modi asked them whether they were 'Hindus' to which the chorus was 'yes'. When he asked, if it was 'antakwadi' as the Congress says, they shouted 'no'.
He also touched the 'Ram Setu' issue. Modi asked the crowd whether it believed that Lord Ram was born, the answer was 'yes'. He asked again if it believed that 'Ram Setu' was built, the reply was 'yes'.
But Congress-led UPA government in an affidavit in the Supreme Court had said that neither Lord Ram was born nor the 'Ram Setu' was built, he said, asking it to be proud of the fact that they were Hindus.
The affidavit was later withdrawn.
5 Dec 2007, 1757 hrs IST,PTI
GODHRA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday charged the Congress with defaming Hindus of the state by calling them terrorists (antakwadis), a day after he justified the encounter of Sohrabbudin.
"The Congress was defaming Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel by calling Hindus of Gujarat terrorists (antakwadis)," he said in an election meeting at Godhra, the sensitive town where the attack on Sabarmati Express train on February 27, 2002 leading to the worst-ever communal riots in the history of the state.
Modi was referring to Congress leader Digvijay Singh's statement here on Sunday in which the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister had said that there was Hindu extremism in Gujarat.
To make the crowd responsive to his plank, Modi asked them whether they were 'Hindus' to which the chorus was 'yes'. When he asked, if it was 'antakwadi' as the Congress says, they shouted 'no'.
He also touched the 'Ram Setu' issue. Modi asked the crowd whether it believed that Lord Ram was born, the answer was 'yes'. He asked again if it believed that 'Ram Setu' was built, the reply was 'yes'.
But Congress-led UPA government in an affidavit in the Supreme Court had said that neither Lord Ram was born nor the 'Ram Setu' was built, he said, asking it to be proud of the fact that they were Hindus.
The affidavit was later withdrawn.