In Vadodara, Modi warns rioters: we won’t spare you

“No unsocial element or rioter will be spared nor allowed to take the law into his hands,” he said, calling for peace and reminding people of Gujarat’s remarkable progress in the last four years.

Modi said he was in constant touch with the Union Home Minister and had asked for additional reinforcements as a precautionary measure. Declining comment on allegations of police inaction, he said: “If anyone believes that justice has not been done, they can knock on the doors of courts but they cannot take the law into their hands.”

“The state Home minister is camping here and officers familiar with Vadodara have been depolyed to assist the police commissioner,” he told reporters.

At SSG Hospital, Modi met the injured, asking them questions like “How did you get hurt?”, “Is the treatment here good?”

Rickshaw-puller Yasin Vora told him he was hit on the shoulder during police firing. “Don’t worry. Now I am here, everything will be alright,” the CM assured him.