17.3.14

RaGa gives another interview

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken on BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying any clean chit was “politically expedient and far too premature” and insisted the Gujarat
chief minister was legally and morally accountable for failing to control the violence.
In an interview to PTI, Rahul also disagreed with finance minister P Chidambaram’s comment that Congress was the underdog and faced an uphill task in the 2014 polls and expressed confidence that a UPA-3 will assume office after the Lok Sabha elections.
Responding to a question on BJP’s contention that Modi had been given a clean chit by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT and the courts, he said, “As you know, the SIT report has been seriously questioned by a number of credible experts. Grave flaws have been pointed out in the functioning of the SIT. The acceptance of the flawed SIT report by the lowest court has not yet been subjected to judicial scrutiny by higher courts.”
He added, “The specific allegation and evidence pointing to Modi’s responsibility in the 2002 riots are yet to be adequately probed. Any talk of his having been given a clean chit may be politically expedient, but is far too premature. There are many unanswered questions.”
Rahul, however,did not see Lok Sabha elections as virtually a presidential-style contest between him and Modi, and said, “It is a clash between two ideas of India,” playing on a theme articulated by Modi at the BJP national council in Delhi earlier this year. 

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