How far is Modi involved in the conspiracy?

The Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and his government did not make any effort to prevent the massacre of Muslim in 2002 and since then they have not helped in the investigation or registration of the crimes. On the other hand they have brazenly created obstructions in the search for justice to the victims.
Even so, slowly but surely the wheel of justice is moving. The Apex court’s order dropping Geetha Johary and Shivnand Jha from the SIT is a welcome sign of the judiciary trying to be resilient. These two along with Ashish Bhatia were acting in a way that was detrimental to getting to the root of the massacre of Muslims and establishing truth about it. In the coming days the focus would be Gujarat 2002. Chief Minister Modi had abruptly walked out of the interview with Karan Thapar because he could not confront the ghost of 2002. The more he tries to leave 2002 behind the more it is haunting him. On April 19 SC will pass appropriate order regarding the proceeding after hearing the argument of the state as well as others like Shivnand Jha whom many blame to be acting against the victims of the pogrom. On April 28 SC will decide whether to continue the investigation under SIT or close it.
The most crucial moment of Gujarat 2002 was when Narendra Modi went public with his characterizing the burning of Sabarmati express compartments as an act of communalism. Till then the collector of Godhra had maintained that it was an accident and he did not like the bodies of the burnt to be paraded. Modi chose words which reveal evil intent. “The abominable event that has occurred at Godhra does not befit any civilized society. This is not a mere communal event but a one-sided terrorist attack by one community.” The ascribing of “terrorist attack by one community” to Muslims is pillorying all the Muslims as terrorists. Modi as Chief Minister of Gujarat and AB Vajpayee as Prime Minister of India shared a warped ideology that is based on hatred for Muslims. Soon after the pogroms of Muslims Vajpayee in the Goa conclave not only forbore criticizing Modi for the carnage of Muslims but went ahead with the tirade against the Muslims who he believed did not know how to live with their neighbours. They always have had troubles with their neighbours! Men with this mindset at the helm of affairs have also been in cabal meetings as in the night of February 27, 2002 cannot be free from involvement in conspiracy. Such a mindset is defined by Arvind Pandya, the government counsel of the state of Gujarat: “Were Modi not a minister (when Sabarmati train was burnt), he would have burst bombs.”
That meeting was attended by all the police and administrative officers of the state government as well as ministers and leaders. The Chief Minister had told the police and the administrators to let Hindus vent their anger at the Muslims and not come in the way. The very next day police officer at Naroda Patia K K Mysorewalla told Muslim women and children begging him to save them from the marauding Hindu crowds that there was order from above that the police would not save them that day. He left them to the bloodthirsty crowd. If chain of command can make the CM complicit he is very much neck deep in it.
In that meeting Modi allegedly gave the Hindu leaders three days to wreak havoc on the Muslims in revenge, just three days and not more than that! Most of the violence was unleashed by the specially trained in mob terrorism, Bajrang Dal. Its leader Haresh Bhat told on tape: “He (Modi) had given us three days ..to do whatever we could. He said he would not give us time after that.. He said this openly.. After three days ..he asked us to stop and everything came to a halt..We had three days… and did what we had to in those three days..” Tehelka asked Haresh Bhatt: Did he (Modi) say that? Bhatt: Yes.. That is why I am saying he did what no chief minister can do..” (This surely is indicative of how Gujarat was made the laboratory of the sangh parivar)Another member of the coterie was VHP boss of Ahemdabad, Rajinder Vyas who said that Modi’s first reaction to Godhra was: “He first said that we could take revenge.” Babu Bajrangi averred that Modi had visited Patia in the evening of February 28; he saw the carnage of Muslims. According to Bajrangi, Modi had “told people they’d done well and should do more.”
The laboratory experiment of Hindutva was so well organized that even before the massacre started panels of advocates were constituted to defend would be Hindus murderers, rapists, and arsonists. As the chief minister was finishing his meeting the panels were meeting to chalk out their plan of defense of the would-be offenders. Could such a massive preparation go on without the knowledge of the Chief Minister? In one such meeting held at Vadodra the participants were Dhimant Bhatt (chief accountant of MS University), Deepak Shah, Rajendra Trivedi, Neeraj Jain, Tushar Vyas, etc.
To fully gauge the complicity of Modi it would be far more important to examine those with IAS and IPS qualifications to find out the full truth and tell the nation of what transpired in the meeting of the night of February 27, 2002. Some of them present in the meeting were: Smt.Swarnakanta Varma IAS, the then Acting Chief Secretary, Mr.Ashok Narayan, IAS, the then Home Secretary, Dr.P.K.Mishra, IAS, the then Principal Secretary to the CM, Mr.Anil mukim, IAS & Mr.A.K.Sharma, IAS Secretaries to CM, Mr.P.C.Pande IPS, then Commissioner of Police Ahmedabad, Shri K.Chakravarty, IPS, the then DG of Police, Gujarat, Shri G.C.Raiger, IPS, the then Addl. DGP of Gujarat, Shri Nityanand, IPS, Secretary in the Home Department. It is very necessary because the finance minister of Modi, Hiren Pandya, was killed in mysterious circumstances. Many including his father believe that he was bumped off for telling a part of the truth of what transpired in the meeting.
Modi was in charge of the Punjab state during election when he came in contact of the RSS tainted Rajendrakumar, the then Jt.Director, Central Intelligence Bureau (CBI) in charge of Gujarat. He it was who had insisted on the state DGP to deem the burning of the train at Godhra as a terrorist act mounted by the ISI. This has serious ramification for India.
Most of these high ranking officers of the central and state governments chose to remain tactfully taciturn to shield Modi and the activists of the Sangh parivar. Some of them also took active part in the carnage as the commissioner PC Pande who got the 700 to 800 dead bodies at Naroda Patiya scattered all over Ahemdabad in order to lessen the severity of the massacre of Naroda Patiya.
To frame Muslims in crimes which they had not committed and then blame them for terrorism was a sure recipe of promotion and awards. No less than the ADGP (Intelligence) had sent a report that arms were manufacture at the Wadgam iron foundry of a VHP worker. DG Vanzara of the notoriety of fake encounters was sent in a raid party to Wadgam. Vanzara reported that the arms were recovered from the Muslim area. For this dishonesty he was given award on August 15, 2002. It must be borne in mind that Vanzara was very close to Modi and later on he would kill Sohrabuddin, his wife Kauser, Ishrat Jehan and others because he would make out that the life the Chief Minister was in danger on account of the Jihadis. Now it is well established that Vanzara and his men had picked up innocent Muslims and bumped the off in the name of ‘deshbhakti”
These gory incidents happened because Modi was directly connected with these. His home minister Gordhan Zadaphia had told Babu Bajrangi to abscond, after more than four months Modi told him to surrender. Modi changed judges until he had the most pliant Akshay Mehta who set Bajrangi free. For this Modi got him posted on Nanavati commission when justice KG Shah had died.
The police commissioner of Surat Shivnand Jha created a flutter in the Apex court this week. He and Geetha Johary wanted their opinions to be heard. If what the NGOs have said about these two is true then fresh FIRs should be filed against them. Their move in the court is nothing else but stalling the proceedings which also helps Modi. Jha was very much complicit in the murder and mayhem of 2002 and yet the state of Gujarat chose him to be on SIT. To undo the evils, filing FIR against Modi and his cohorts is the crying need of the hour.