'Modi's words are meaningless and hollow'

December 27, 2013 17:54

Writer Samaresh Majumdar is fuming. Having heard of what Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi wrote in his blog, the ace writer of Bengal is outraged.

Modi expressed himself in his blog after getting a clean chit by an Ahmedabad court on the Gujarat riots of 2002.

According to Majumdar, however, these words are meaningless and hollow. They are meticulously designed to serve a political purpose.

"Instead of penning such 'overtly emotional' words, he should have stood by those people who lost everything,' the writer told Rediff.com on Friday.

"Had the Gujarat chief minister taken some sincere steps to counter the riots that claimed hundred of lives, his 'anguish' would have been justified,' Majumdar said.

"Where was he when women were raped and children were butchered? Why didn't he feel their pain then? A mere court statement can't belie the truth. The whole world knows what happened in Gujarat in 2002. The Gujarat chief minister should seek clean chit not from any legal body but from the people of this country.'

As told to Indrani Roy

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