"Every word that Modi uttered following the Godhra incident was twisted and distorted by the well-oiled misinformation machinery set up by the Congress and the Left This statement was made to go viral by anti-Modi lobbies with active help of the national media despite repeated protests by Modi that he was being misquoted. What the country’s premier newspaper The Times of India did with this statement was a new low in the history of Indian journalism. On March 3, 2002, The Times of India splashed on its front page in question-answer form, certain fabricated statements attributed to Modi including the same “action-reaction” statement to build a case that Modi had justified anti-Muslim riots. When this news item misquoting Modi appeared in The Times of India, the state government immediately sent a protest letter to the editor of the paper stating that the CM had not been interviewed by TOI nor had he justified the violence in the words attributed to him. When the TOI did not publish the correction issued by the CM’s office, a BJP leader went to meet the TOI editor who asked them to send the facts in writing, which was done promptly. But the TOI still didn’t publish the clarification issued by Modi. It was brought to the notice of the editor twice in writing before Modi’s clarification was published on March 23, a good 20 days after the original story was published on March 3, 2002. What is worse, while the inflammatory misquote attributed to Modi was splashed on the front page of TOI in both the national as well as in the Ahmedabad editions, the clarification by Modi’s office was published in a remote corner in the inside pages of the newspaper. In the meantime, the quote attributed to Modi had been spiced up with gory add-ons and sinister interpretations. It was circulated all over the world with such fierce speed that it acquired a life of its own. Even the clean chit given to Modi by the Supreme Court appointed and monitored Special Investigate Team (SIT) in 2010-11 has not halted its viral spread and endless repetition.... Narendra Modi told the SIT that The Times of India had published a news item on March 3, 2002, pretending as though he had given an interview to them whereas nobody from the newspaper had met him for an interview. The TOI reporter had cooked up the story on the basis of his own surmises and was prominently splashed on the front page of the newspaper."