Bihar police asked us to scrap Modi's rally after blasts: BJP

November 09, 2013 21:16

BJP President Rajnath Singh has said Bihar police officials had requested him and the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on October 27 not to address the rally in Patna, but they decided to go ahead as cancelling the programme would have led to riots in the state.

A series of blasts had taken place at the rally site, claiming six lives.

"Police officials came to me and said 'don't address the public meeting as some blasts have taken place'. They said the same thing to Narendra Modi. I said no, whatever happens, we will address the rally. If we had cancelled the rally, then there would have been riots and violence in the whole of Bihar," Singh said in an interview.

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