How Narendra Modi tackled 71 questions by the SIT

How Narendra Modi tackled 71 questions by the SIT

The Tehelka magazine on Thursday published what everyone was curious to know — what questions were posed to chief minister Narendra Modi during his interrogation by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on March 25, 2010, and what his responses were. The details show how Modi resorted to selective facts, evasion, amnesia, outright lies and rhetoric during his questioning.

Gujarat CM Narendra Modi appears before SIT

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday appeared before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning over the 2002 communal riots.



Modi reached the SIT office at noon. This is the first time Modi is being interrogated in a riot case.

An official spokesman said Modi's decision to submit himself for questioning was no setback for the state government. "What setback?" asked spokesman Jai Narayan Vyas.

The SIT issued a notice to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader March 11 seeking his deposition during the week beginning March 21 on the issues raised by Zakia Jaffri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri who was killed in the riots.

Jaffri died along with other residents when a mob set fire to the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad in the wake of the violence sparked off by a train burning at Godhra that killed 59 Hindu passengers.

Most of those killed in the retaliatory Gujarat violence were Muslims.

Narendra Modi to get US, Canada visa

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is likely to get a Canadian visa adopted soon by the much refused and coveted US visa, diplomatic sources at the greatest level revealed.

This comes in the wake up of the billion dollar relationship which Gujarat, developing from the rate associated with 12 percent, offers struck around companies.

An official spokesman of the CM’s workplace stated, ”At this particular moment we have nothing to say upon the matter.”

Overseas Indians and several business organizations in the United states and Canada happen to be lobbying along with the US State Department that it makes no feeling to refuse credit to Narendra Modi.

It would appear that their own initiatives have borne fruit. An additional group, The Overseas Friends associated with the BJP, have also been making efforts in order to safe the visa for Modi.

Modi’s workplace, however, did not provide any kind of comments when asked about the CM’s journey ideas.

The Congress celebration has been utilizing the refusal associated with the US visa for a long period as a stay with beat Modi with.