tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post7846194037666753977..comments2024-03-24T12:52:31.153+05:30Comments on Shadow Warrior: Human Rights Day in Bombay (December 10, 2007)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-19142261089482844222007-12-10T04:03:00.000+05:302007-12-10T04:03:00.000+05:30Apparently the statement "quoted" on Sohrabuddin b...Apparently the statement "quoted" on Sohrabuddin by Modi was cooked up by the ToiletPaper journalist. This is just like the bogus action/reaction statement attributed to him in 2002<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.hindu.com/nic/modi.htm" REL="nofollow">Mr. Narendra Modi's reply to Election Commission</A><BR/><BR/>The basis of the complaint appears to be a report dated 5th December 2007 of the Times of India by one Shri Prashant Dayal. The relevant extract in the Times of India reads as under:<BR/><BR/> Modi…….you tell what should be done to Sohrabuddin?<BR/> People at the rally: Kill him, kill him.<BR/> Modi: Well, that is what I did. And I did what was necessary.”<BR/><BR/>The last sentence of the report of the Times of India has generated controversy in the whole nation. Television Channels and News Papers have made comments to the effect that I have stated that ‘Sohrabuddin got what he deserved’, or that ‘it is a confessional statement by me’ or that ‘Modi has justified a murder’. All other news papers cuttings which the Commission has taken into account are dated 6th December 2007, which do not report my speech delivered on 4th December, 2007 <B>but are comments inspired by false imputation in the Times of India. This last sentence is not reflected in the CD as having been used by me.</B><BR/><BR/>I have since received the copy of CD on the evening of 7th December 2007 at 5.45 p.m. I find none of the above statements are contained in my speech as recorded in the CD. The .E.C. notice is issued on the basis of unverified and false media reports.<BR/><BR/><B>It is clear that Times of India’s article which began this controversy, invented my comment to the effect “Modi: Well that is what I did. And I did what was necessary”. The CD clearly indicates that this sentence was an invention of author and not the orator. </B>The comments in the media that ‘Modi justified murder’ or that ‘he made confessional statement’ as being privy to murder or that Modi declared in the meeting that ‘Sohrabuddin got what he deserved’ do not find a mention in the CD. These are journalistic inventions intended to engineer a ‘Hate Modi’ campaign and not evidenced in the CD supplied by the Election Commission. My criticism in the media was concocted and engineered by this ‘Hate Modi’ Campaign. <B>No where in my speech have I explicitly referred to the religion of any person. I have spoken against terrorism. It is not my speech but the complaint which assumes terrorism is linked to a religion.</B>habchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234410242846200850noreply@blogger.com