It is difficult to understand why an actor like Amitabh Bachchan and hordes of top industrialists are bent upon giving credibility to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, when the Supreme Court is doing its best to expose his misdeeds. Modi is responsible for conspiring the killings of more than 2000 Muslims in his state in 2002. Only a few days back the Supreme Court ordered reopening of the case of false encounter in which Sohrabuddin and his wife were killed. The apex court has been so horrified over the intentional closure of riot cases by the state machinery that it has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the cases of ethnic cleansing which Modi’s plotters had covered up. Amitabh’s visit gave credibility to a person whose hands are stained with blood. Modi is shunned by the liberals and human right activists because he wears communalism on his sleeves. One is at a loss to understand why Amitabh Bachchan undertook the journey to Ahmedabad to call on Modi. Though at the face of it the apparent reason of the actor’s visit was to screen his movie, Paa, for the Chief Minister, however, there must be something more than what meets the eye.
Farzana Z Khan
Nagpur, Maharashtra