"This appears to be a pattern: whenever Muslim riots or bomb attacks target Hindus, it is thought acceptable to accuse the victims, in order to avoid possible revolts. Thus in 1993 in Mumbai, after eleven coordinated bomb blasts in Hindu majority areas, which killed 257 people and injured 713, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar quickly cooked up a twelfth explosion ... in a Muslim area! āI have deliberately misled people,ā he explained later, to show that both communities had been affected.ā And to portray both communitiesā potential to behave as āterroristsā. Truth and clarity of mind are the casualties."
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Sharad Pawar, as quoted in The Godhra Riots: Sifting Fact from Fiction, Nicole Elfi, 2013, quoting The New Indian Express, August 13, 2006.
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