Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Saturday defended Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the face of fresh allegations about his letting the state’s Hindus vent their anger in the 2002 post-Godhra riots, suggesting that the charges bore no truth.
“As far as I know Modi personally, I do not believe in these allegations. The truth will come out one day,” said Mr Singh, a former national president of the BJP, without elaborating on the affidavit filed by a senior IPS officer in Gujarat, Sanjeev Bhatt.
“What Modi has done for Gujarat, the more said the less. He has set new milestones of development in that state,” said Mr Singh at a press conference. Lauding the JD(U)-BJP government in Bihar, he said: “Bihar, too, will be counted among India’s most well-developed states in five years”. Chastising the Congress over the row over the Lokpal committee, he said the UPA government is not “mentally prepared” for allowing the Bill to become a law. “The BJP will wholeheartedly support the bill if it is presented in parliament on a consensus basis, agreed upon by all the members in the drafting committee,” he said.