The riots had almost ended by that time and maximum 50 more would have been killed by. The Tribune reported on 30 April 2002 that the death toll crossed the 900 mark on 29 April. The death toll in Gujarat riots would thus be 935. A maximum of 20 more deaths might have happened in Gujarat after that. between 10 to, no riots took place in Gujarat in those 10 days at all, and the Army left Gujarat on 21 May. If anyone sees the English newspapers of those days, i.e. Out of these 972, India Today included 57 people killed in Godhra, so the death toll post-Godhra was 915. India Today weekly reported in its issue dated, when the riots had almost stopped that “Total dead- 972” (For details, see page 122). These figures themselves may well be exaggerated given as they are by a Congressman, who worked under Sonia Gandhi. That the UPA government, with Congress President and Italian-born and staunchly anti-BJP Sonia Gandhi as the UPA chief, and Communists as outside supporters, gave the figure of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus killed in the Gujarat riots inside Parliament is something worth pondering about. But that cannot a justification to exaggerate and inflate the number of people killed to 2,000 or any higher figure. That more than 1,000 people were killed is highly unfortunate and reprehensible. The death of a single innocent person, whether Hindu or Muslim or belonging to any other religion, is highly unfortunate and cannot be justified. May be after 10 years, at this rate it will jump to 10,000!Already it is being said that, “thousands of Muslims were killed in Gujarat” and “3,000 innocent Muslims were butchered in Gujarat”. within 4 months! Now it has jumped from 900 to 2,000. Q- Why don’t you accept that Gujarat is being defamed because of Narendra Modi?Ī- If that is true, give the people of Gujarat a chance to pronounce their verdict through elections.”Īs we see, the number of people killed in the riots jumped from 900 to 1100 after Narendra Modi’s previous interview, i.e. We managed to control the riots in 72 hours… Q- Do you accept that you failed to provide security to the people of the state?Ī- 98% of Gujarat would not have had peace if we had failed to fulfill our duties. Are you adding all the people killed in other states like Maharashtra and Bengal to Gujarat’s account?(Narendra Modi is talking of the Solapur riots of 10 and 11 October 2002 in Maharashtra and other petty riots which occured long after Godhra and had nothing to do with Godhra and post-Godhra).Ī- There would have no riots in Gujarat if there had been no Godhra… Q- You are held responsible for the killing of 1,100 innocent people in the riots.Ī- In our last interview, you said 900 people. “Q – Your opponents call you ‘Jinnah of the Hindus’.Ī- I am hearing this for the first time though I still don’t consider you as an enemy.
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Let us see the interview given by the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to Aaj Tak’s Prabhu Chawla, excerpts of which were published in the weekly India Today, dated 4 November 2002: etc.īut these numbers are nothing but a pack of lies. continue to publish articles saying, “Win in Assembly elections of December 2002 does not whitewash Narendra Modi’s sins of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 when 2000 innocent Muslims were butchered” or “The Gujarat pogrom of killing thousands of Muslims did not help the BJP in the long term” etc. Newspapers like The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, etc. The editorials of the national English dailies, and the articles published from the freelancers on the newspapers’ editorial pages are nothing but a pack of lies, akin the autobiography of former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, “In the Line of Fire”. To read the Rajya Sabha records click:Įven Indian Muslims’ English newspaper Milli Gazette also reported this The UPA government gives these figures, and hence they themselves could be inflated. The report placed the number of riot-affected widows at 919 and the number of children orphaned at 606. This was in a WRITTEN REPLY (meaning the UPA Government was fully aware of what it was doing) to a question asked by a Congress member (that Congress member was Babri Masjid Action Committee lawyer R K Anand) on the religion wise casualties in riots in Gujarat after Godhra. Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots Posted on Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media | 691 Commentsįact: 2000 is the number of Muslims who roasted to coal 59 Ram sevaks in Godhra, including 25 women and 15 children (including babies and toddlers), on 27 February 2002, not the number of Muslims killed in the subsequent Gujarat riots.Īs per figures given by the then Union Minister of State for Home Shriprakash Jaiswal, who belongs to the Congress Party, in Parliament on, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the riots, 2548 people were injured and 223 people were missing.