FACT: To lie through the skin of the teeth that, “Not a single person has been convicted in Gujarat for the ‘genocide’” is utter rubbish. Firstly, no ‘genocide’ took place at all in Gujarat. They were plain riots in which hundreds of Hindus were also killed even after Godhra, and 40,000 Hindus also thrown…
Category: 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Answers to Outlook’s 25 questions
Sundeep Dougal writing in the OutlookIndia posed 25 questions to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi based on the testimony given by Mr. Modi to the Supreme Court appointed SIT. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280034 Mr. Modi’s testimony was meant to be confidential but that has not prevented media outlets from leaking stories based on it. Earlier in the week…
Myth 20: Zakia Jafri’s complaint against Narendra Modi is a genuine one
FACT: The complaint , filed against Modi and 61 others including Government officials and State Ministers by the wife of late Congress leader Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the 2002 riots , was a bundle of inexplicable factual errors, legal loopholes and wild allegations and virtually looked like a tutored child’s complaint , simply…
Myth 19: Narendra Modi told police officers to go slow on Hindus in the 27 Feb night meeting
FACT: Before getting into the details, let us post one important thing here. Is Narendra Modi a fool to openly give such orders to so many officials in such a meeting where any of the officers could have secretly recorded such orders or which could have gone totally against Narendra Modi? If he did want…
Myth 18: Narendra Modi never expressed sadness for the post-Godhra riots
FACT: It is not astonishing to see the media level absolutely false and wrong charges on the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. But what is astonishing is the extent to which the media goes in putting unbelievable factual errors and sticking to them, and believing its own lies. These days, the livid media…
Myth 17: Gujarat Government did nothing to help the victims
Fact: We have already seen the steps taken by the Government to quell the violence, and in saving the lives of the victims- for example in Sanjeli, Bodeli and Viramgam areas of Gujarat. Hindus were also saved by violent Muslims in many places in Gujarat, like in Jamalpur on 1 March 2002, and in Modasa…
Myth 16: A pregnant woman’s womb was ripped open and fetus was taken out
Fact: Dr J S Kanoria who carried out the post mortem of the woman, Kausarbanu, on 2 March 2002 found that her womb was intact, and that she had died of burns suffered in the riots. Weekly India Today dated 5 April 2010 reports: “Significantly, in March 2003, the SC had stalled the trial of…
Myth 15: Narendra Modi gave free hand to rioters for 3 days
Fact: This much-repeated nonsensical allegation is baseless. Narendra Modi frantically called the Army units to Ahmedabad on February 28- as per the report of The Hindu the next day. India Today weekly’s report ‘Chronology of a Crisis’ on this topic in its issue dated 18 March 2002 also proves this beyond doubt. The full details…
Myth 14: Sangh Parivar organisations like VHP organized the riots
Fact: Out of Gujarat’s 18,600 villages, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had units in 10,000 villages at the time of the riots of 2002. If it had wanted, it could have easily organized retaliatory riots in many of these 10,000 villages. Instead, only 40 out of the state’s 18,600 villages saw riots. VHP General Secretary…
Myth 13: Narendra Modi said-“Every action has equal and opposite reaction”
Fact: Balbir Punj writes-“Blatant myths and fiction have lacerated the facts on Gujarat. The Times of India (March 3) reported Modi’s much-publicised misquote of Newton’s third law—”Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. In fact, the CM had never said such a thing and no other paper except for Times of India had carried…
Concocted Lies And Myths By The Media
By now we have seen much of the reality of the post-Godhra riots. The entire media continues to concoct white lies on this subject. In this chapter, let us see some of the malicious lies circulated by the media, NDTV in particular, and company. Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots Myth…
Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Fact: As per figures given by the Union Minister of State for Home Shriprakash Jaiswal, who belongs to the Congress Party, in Parliament on 11 May 2005, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the riots, 2548 people were injured and 223 people were missing. This was in a WRITTEN REPLY to a question…
Myth 2: Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat
Fact: Undoubtedly, Muslims were killed in one-sided attacks in many places in the state- like in Naroda Patiya, Gulbarg Society, Naroda Gram, Sadarpura, Ode and other places, but by and large, the riots were not one-sided, and Muslims were hardly the cattle hiding from the slaughter house. As we have seen in a couple of…
Myth 3: Whole of Gujarat was burning
Fact: Out of the state’s 18,600 villages, 240 municipal towns, and 25 district headquarters, only 60 places saw riots. If one includes the two big cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, by the wildest stretch of imagination, only 2 % of the state can be assumed to have been burning. Only 40 out of the state’s…
Myth 4: The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Fact: Even though the situation was terrible, the police performed its work extremely efficiently. The police force was woefully insufficient. Uday Mahurkar reports for India Today (18 March 2002): “Ahmedabad has a police force of 6,000, including 1,500 armed personnel. In addition, the entire state has just four companies (530 jawans) of the Rapid Action…
Myth 5: Gujarat police was anti-Muslim
Fact: Far from it, the police was slow to act on Muslim fanatics for fear of being called ‘anti-Muslim’ by the media. As many as 170 people were shot dead by the police in Gujarat- i.e. killed in police firing. Muslims greeted the police, and also the army, with bullets and turned off the power…
Myth 6: Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Fact: Gujarat riots of 2002 AD were absolutely nothing as compared to Gujarat’s past riots of 1969 and 1985 AD. They were still nothing as compared to Gujarat’s riots of 1980, 1982, 1990-91- 92. And they were again nothing as compared to pre-Independence riots of the 1940’s in Ahmedabad when the Hindu community took a…
Myth 7: Only Muslims were rendered homeless and suffered economically
Fact: As early as 5 March 2002, out of the 98 relief/ refugee camps set up in the state, 85 were for the Muslims and 13 were for the Hindus. As on 17 March 2002, as per the report of a newspaper as anti-BJP as The Times of India, more than 10,000 Hindus were rendered…
Myth 8: The Gujarat government was involved in the riots
Fact: The full details of the role of the government in controlling violence can be seen in this article: http://www.gujaratriots.com/29/role-of-the-government-in-controlling-violence/ Gujarat government of the BJP, headed by Narendra Modi was blind to the mushrooming of madrasas in the state. Not only that, the previous government headed by Keshubhai Patel too was equally blind to…
Myth 9: Gujarat riots were like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Fact: There was a contrast of day and night in these two riots. NDTV, the mouthpiece of the CPI (M), and company, and other stark liars like Arundhati Roy, Teesta Setalavad, and others deliberately misled the nation by equating the two riots. In May-June 2005, NDTV deliberately asked a question to its viewers in its…