"Here is an illustrative example of how 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. One of the early charges against Modi was that when post-Godhra riots broke out, he justified and legitimised violence against Muslims thus proving his complicity. This mischief started with an incomplete statement telecast on Zee TV based on an interview conducted by Zee correspondent Sudhir Chaudhary. Modiâs exact words were: âKriya pratikriya ki chain chal rahi hai. Hum chahte hain ki na kriya ho aur na pratikriya.â (A chain of action-reaction is going on. We want that there should be neither âactionâ nor âreactionâ). But Zee TV deliberately left out the second sentence and presented the mischievously clipped first half of the statement to build a case that Modi had justified the post-Godhra riots as a legitimate reaction of Hindus against the killings of karsevaks at Godhra.... When Chaudhary questioned the CM about the Gulberg Society massacre in which the former Congress MP, Ehsan Jafri, was killed along with more than 50 others, the chief minister in his reply referred to the reports that Jafri had first fired at the violent mob, which apparently infuriated the crowd further. Thereafter, the mob stormed the Gulberg Society and set it on fire. According to Chaudhary, Narendra Modi referred to Jafriâs firing as âactionâ and the massacre that followed as âreactionâ.... However, he could not provide a satisfactory explanation why in the Zee TV telecast, the last lineââHum chahte hai ki na kriya ho aur na pratikriyaââwas deliberately omitted. ..."
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Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Voices from Narendra Modiâs Gujarat, Manushi Publications, Delhi 2014.
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