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Publication: The Times of India
Date: May 12, 2002
Secretary of BJP's national unit
B. Padmanabha Acharya on Saturday alleged that the Godhra carnage was a
conspiracy hatched by a section of the Gujarat unit of the Congress to
create communal disturbance in the state as well as in the country.
The arrest of a chairman of a Congress-ruled
civic body of Ahmedabad, as a prime accused in the Godhra incident in which
kar sevaks had been burnt alive by a mob, "proved which party instigated
the attack," Mr Acharya told newspersons here.
The gameplan was to create communal
disturbances in Gujarat as well as in the country, Mr Acharya alleged.
He said no Congress MP, either raised
the Godhra carnage issue or condemned it after it took place.
Describing what happened after the
Godhra carnage as "equally condemnable", Mr Acharya said though the Narendra
Modi government did all it could to control the situation, tension mounted
across the state and violence erupted in Ahmedabad and other cities.
Defending the Modi government, Mr
Acharya claimed the situation in Gujarat was now under control. He said
the centre would consider imposition of President's rule in insurgency-hit
Tripura, on the ground of failure to control law and order, but the Congress
would have to raise the demand in parliament. (PTI)
