The dirt on Gujarat development model

October 08, 2013 14:31

CPI-M leader and MP Sitaram Yechury on Narendra Modi's recent campaign for toilets over temples...

"Recently, the RSS/BJP prime ministerial candidate, who presided over the 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat, thundered in Delhi -- "Pahale shauchalaya, phir devalaya (build toilets before you build temples)."

He was echoing a similar comment made by Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh weeks earlier.

Such assertions could be considered laudable but for Gujarat's dismal record on sanitation under the BJP government." Read more

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