Despite various investigations and testimonies implicating BJP leaders, including then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, in the Gujarat Genocide, the trial court s recent.
The burning train on February 27, 2002 – and the lies and false narratives built around it – kept Narendra Modi in power in Gujarat, and started him on the road to becoming the prime minister of India.
Many still want to look at Gujarat 2002 as a sort of civil war inspired by the two-nation theory, but it is about an elected government which failed to conduct itself by the norms of governance – and swore by an ideology.
After the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, Modi’s image builders milked the occasion to anoint him as the strongman saviour that India’s majority religion needed to put Muslims in their place.