Myth 4: The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Fact: Even though the situation was terrible, the police performed its work extremely efficiently. The police force was woefully insufficient. Uday Mahurkar reports for India Today (18 March 2002):...
View ArticleMyth 3: Whole of Gujarat was burning
Fact: Out of the state’s 18,600 villages, 240 municipal towns, and 25 district headquarters, only 60 places saw riots. If one includes the two big cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, by the wildest...
View ArticleMyth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Fact: As per figures given by the Union Minister of State for Home Shriprakash Jaiswal, who belongs to the Congress Party, in Parliament on 11 May 2005, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the...
View ArticleConcocted Lies And Myths By The Media
By now we have seen much of the reality of the post-Godhra riots. The entire media continues to concoct white lies on this subject. In this chapter, let us see some of the malicious lies circulated by...
View ArticleMyth 15: Narendra Modi gave free hand to rioters for 3 days
Fact: This much-repeated nonsensical allegation is baseless. Narendra Modi frantically called the Army units to Ahmedabad on February 28- as per the report of The Hindu the next day. India Today...
View ArticleMyth 16: A pregnant woman’s womb was ripped open and fetus was taken out
Fact: Dr J S Kanoria who carried out the post mortem of the woman, Kausarbanu, on 2 March 2002 found that her womb was intact, and that she had died of burns suffered in the riots. Weekly India Today...
View ArticleMyth 17: Gujarat Government did nothing to help the victims
Fact: We have already seen the steps taken by the Government to quell the violence, and in saving the lives of the victims- for example in Sanjeli, Bodeli and Viramgam areas of Gujarat. Hindus were...
View ArticleMyth 18: Narendra Modi never expressed sadness for the post-Godhra riots
FACT: It is not astonishing to see the media level absolutely false and wrong charges on the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. But what is astonishing is the extent to which the media goes...
View ArticleMyth 19: Narendra Modi told police officers to go slow on Hindus in the 27...
FACT: Before getting into the details, let us post one important thing here. Is Narendra Modi a fool to openly give such orders to so many officials in such a meeting where any of the officers could...
View ArticleAnswers to Outlook’s 25 questions
Sundeep Dougal writing in the OutlookIndia posed 25 questions to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi based on the testimony given by Mr. Modi to the Supreme Court appointed SIT....
View ArticleMyth 2: Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat
Fact: Undoubtedly, Muslims were killed in one-sided attacks in many places in the state- like in Naroda Patiya, Gulbarg Society, Naroda Gram, Sadarpura, Ode and other places, but by and large, the...
View ArticleMyth 6: Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Fact: Gujarat riots of 2002 AD were absolutely nothing as compared to Gujarat’s past riots of 1969 and 1985 AD. They were still nothing as compared to Gujarat’s riots of 1980, 1982, 1990-91- 92. And...
View ArticleMyth 11: In Ehsan Jafri’s case, women were raped
Fact: The following is some part of Arundhati Roy’s article in weekly Outlook dated 6 May 2002 on the Ehsan Jafri case: “Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to...
View ArticleMyth 13: Narendra Modi said-“Every action has equal and opposite reaction”
Fact: Balbir Punj writes-“Blatant myths and fiction have lacerated the facts on Gujarat. The Times of India (March 3) reported Modi’s much-publicised misquote of Newton’s third law—”Every action has an...
View ArticleMyth 20: Zakia Jafri’s complaint against Narendra Modi is a genuine one
FACT: First thing to be noted is that Zakia Jafri did not make any complaint against Narendra Modi at all, for as many as 4 years after the 2002 riots, i.e. until 2006! In this time, she made...
View ArticleMyth 21: No one was brought to justice for the riots
FACT: To lie through the skin of the teeth that, “Not a single person has been convicted in Gujarat for the ‘genocide’” is utter rubbish. Firstly, no ‘genocide’ took place at all in Gujarat. They were...
View ArticleMyth 22: A B Vajpayee said Modi is not following Rajdharma
FACT: This incident happened on 4th April 2002, when the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Gujarat. When a reporter asked the Prime Minister in his joint press conference with...
View ArticleMyth 14: Sangh Parivar organisations like VHP organized the riots
Fact: Out of Gujarat’s 18,600 villages, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had units in 10,000 villages at the time of the riots of 2002. If it had wanted, it could have easily organized retaliatory riots...
View ArticleMyth 23: Ehsan Jafri called Narendra Modi during the riots
FACT: This is absolutely untrue, and a lie concocted many years after 2002. No such charge was ever made in 2002, neither during the time of the riots, nor for many months and years after 2002. There...
View ArticleMyth 24: The bodies of Godhra victims were displayed in public
FACT: The Godhra carnage occurred on 27 February 2002 at 8 AM. After that, the bodies of the karsevaks killed in Godhra were brought to Ahmedabad. This was necessary, because most of the killed...
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