Ahmedabad :Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said that he should be hanged if he is found guilty of complicity in the communal riots in his state in 2002.
In an interview to an Urdu newspaper, Nai Duniya, Mr Modi has discussed the riots in which 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims. The newspaper is edited by Shahid Siddiqui, an MP of the Samajwadi Party from Lucknow.
Mr Siddiqui explains, “I asked him, ‘Why you don’t apologise? When Sonia Gandhi, Rajivji could apologise, why can’t you apologise?’ He said, ‘ If I am found to be a culprit, I should be hanged…also, if I am proved innocent, the media should apologise for tarnishing my image’.”
Detailing how the interview with Mr Modi was set up, the MP said,” A friend of approached Modi’s office… my condition was that there should not be any preconditions and that I will ask all kind of questions, specially about the Gujarat riots ,” said Mr Siddiqui.