2002 wounds have healed, says Modi

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that the wounds of the 2002 communal riots have healed and Muslims were doing well...

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that the wounds of the 2002 communal riots have healed and Muslims were doing well in his state.

“The wounds of the citizens of my state have healed and they are living in peace reaping the fruits of development,” Modi said in reply to a question on how he would use development to bring about communal harmony in the state. He, along with former chief ministers Digvijay Singh and Farooq Abdullah, was interacting with a gathering at the India Today Conclave on Friday evening.

However, he said he would be unable to heal the wounds of those people who had been raising these issues time and again as “this was their means to earn a livelihood”.

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Abdullah intervened to say that “such matters” should not be raked up constantly as it only helped in keeping the wounds unhealed.

Asked by Singh the reasons for not giving poll tickets to a single Muslim candidate, Modi countered by questioning the Congress party on choosing to field less number of Muslim candidates than in the previous elections. He claimed that the BJP had several Muslim members at the tehsil and district levels who had won elections.

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