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Sonia provoked me: Narendra Modi
6 Dec 2007, 1652 hrs IST, INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK
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DELHI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that it was Congress
president Sonia Gandhi who provoked him into making his remarks on Sohrabuddin's
killing during an election rally.
In an exclusive interview to
Times
Now
, Modi said: "I began talking about
development, about agriculture and primary education. But when Sonia Gandhi, in
her first rally in Gujarat, called me a 'merchant of death', I had to react
because in a democracy it is my duty to take the truth to the people of the
country."
On allegations
levelled against him in the Sohrabuddin case, he said that he had kept quiet
over the issue despite all sorts of allegations flying thick and fast in the
case but was provoked by the Congress.
Modi also said that reactions
to his statement reeked of pseudo-secularism.
"I fail to understand why all
anti-social activities and terrorism is linked to the minorities. People should
talk about a terrorist and his act, not about his clan or religion," the BJP
leader said.
Gujarat chief
minister's controversial remarks over the death of Sohrabuddin have caused a lot
of furore, even pushing senior advocate KTS Tulsi, who defended the state
government in the Supreme Court in the fake encounter case, into declaring that
he would opt out and return the brief.
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