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From: Sushama
Who killed 254 Hindus in Gujarat?
Author: Arvind Lavakare
Publication: Sify.com
Date: November 16, 2007
URL: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14562098&vsv=SHGTpicslot
Introduction: Arvind Lavakare may be 71, but the fire in his belly burns stronger than in many people half his age. The economics post-graduate worked with the Reserve Bank of India and several private and public sector companies before retiring in 1997. His first love, however, remains sports. An accredited cricket umpire in Mumbai, he has reported and commented on cricket matches for newspapers, Doordarshan and AIR. Lavakare has also been regularly writing on politics since 1997, and published a monograph, The Truth About Article 370, in 2005.
Even as a prominent TV channel, Aaj Tak, repeatedly aired its sponsored Tehelka tapes "exposing" Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his Gujarat government as Neros and mass murderers in the post-Godhra tragedy of 2002, B.P. Singhal, former IPS and ex-Rajya Sabha member, sent out to a newspaper his signed article that contained a nugget deserving entry in the cartoon panels of Robert Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Below is that item in Singhal's own words:
"Aaj Tak harped on the same old refrain that 'Modi did not call the Army until three days had passed'. When the TV channel contacted me on phone to get my response, I told the anchor that the Godhra carnage took place on February 27, 2002, that the Hindu backlash commenced on February 28 and the Army was doing flag march on the forenoon of March 1… He cut me short by saying that 'This is exactly what we had said, no action was taken by Modi on 29th, 30th and 31st thus giving three clear days to the murderers…' I had to cut him short by reminding him that the date 28th was 28th of February 2002 and there were no 29th, 30th or 31st in that month. The phone was of course disconnected."
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