The Congress is bringing out a `chargesheet' against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of still harbouring contempt and hatred against Muslims.
NEW DELHI: The Congress is bringing out a `chargesheet' against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of still harbouring contempt and hatred against Muslims and making "bogus claims" on development.
The 88-page document to be formally released ahead of Assembly elections in Gujarat accuses the Modi government of discriminating against Muslims, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes, claiming that the number of police personnel from these communities has decreased under his rule.
Charging the BJP's Modi-led government in Gujarat with still harbouring contempt and hatred against the Muslims of the state, it says "the riot-affected Muslims are still in the most miserable condition, the state government has offered them less than a pittance.
"Narendra Modi's hatred and contempt for the Muslims at state and national level is a very well known fact. That's why he was reluctant in honouring the two Muslim cricketers who did India proud in playing in the 2007 world cup in Twenty-Twenty," it says.
Terming as "bogus" Modi's assertion that he was the number one chief minister of the number one state of the country, it accuses him of having spread lies until 2007.
"The desire of Modi to prove that he is a number one Chief Minister in India was (and is) as maniacal and authoritarian as his role in provoking one-sided attacks on the Muslims of the state after Godhra,.. and involvement of his government machinery in actually facilitating and helping the rioters," it alleges.
Modi chose to project himself as a man of good governance as he needed to change his image from being the "conspirator of organising the carnage and the ethnic cleansing in Gujarat," the chargesheet claims.
Prepared by party's senior MP Madhusudan Mistry, a known detractor of the Chief Minister, it says the campaign to project Gujarat as "number one state" was "abandoned" in the middle of Modi's term as it became "very difficult" to sustain it. This was because Gujarat was "never number one" in health, education, agriculture, infrastructure and law and order.
The `chargesheet' begins as "we the citizens charge the Government of Gujarat and Chief Minister Narendra Modi with tremendous increase in the total number of incidents of cognizable offences in Gujarat between the years 2001 and 2006."
"The state government has literally done nothing in rehabilitating the riot-affected Muslim families numbering 5,307, languishing as refugees in various camps," it claims.
It further claims the Central government's allocated assistance of Rs 150 crore to help the riot-affected has not been fully utilised and the state has returned the unutilized Rs 19 crore to the Centre.
In the 'chargesheet', the Congress has brought out "omissions and commissions" of the Modi government and its track record in different fields including law and order, crime against women, among others.
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