After the Special Investigation Team had submitted its report, a large number of media reported a clean chit given to Narendra Modi. However, the Tehelka scoop (5th February 2011) clearly shows that the newspapers’ headline was nothing but a concoction. As per the scoop, the entire blame of carnage squarely was put on Modi while all the charges against him stand vindicated in the SIT report. The report practically confirms all the findings of the people’s tribunal and other Citizens committees that painstakingly investigated the Gujarat violence and called it a pogrom. In this battle for justice, the communal elements seem to have all the major manipulating power at present which is clearly showcased in Gujarat. This whole episode should make us have the introspection as to how to ensure that ‘truth shall prevail’ in present circumstances. Moreover, which are these forces, politics-media nexus which seem to manipulate the mass thinking at will by publishing that ‘SIT has given clean chit to Modi’? If we cannot rise up to this stark fact, such popular perceptions will be laying the ground for the mass murderers to keep ruling with the great appreciation from the communal forces and captains of industry and they can also manipulate the opinion of masses in their favour.
Mohd Ziyaullah Khan
Nagpur, M.S.