By all accounts, Modi is the best Chief Minister, Gujarat has had, and may go down in history as such. Yet, the media and political opponents have demonised him. The fact remains that he quenched the riots after Godhra, killing more than 200 rioters, mostly Hindus. Compare him with former Congress Chief Minister Madhav Singh Solanki. In 1969 riots continued unabated for six months in Gujarat. Compare it with the biggest massacre in India after partition in Delhi in 1984 when more than 4,000 Sikhs were massacred with no police intervention. Rajiv Gandhi was in command, Narsimha Rao was the Home Minister, a number of Congressman were involved which was later established in court.
Also compare it with what former Chief Minister of West Bengal SS Ray did in the late 60s and early 70s when more than 4,000 misguided Naxalites, who happened to be brilliant students, were brutally killed by the State police.
Further, compare it with the Left, which came to power after the Congress in West Bengal. They picked the local Congress leaders of eminence one-by-one and killed them publically to maximise the fear deterrent among the masses.
The Nandigram killings look like a Gestapo operation, as they did annihilating hundreds of innocent villagers. These are incidents rarely discussed. But the Gujarat encounter overshadows everything. It shows the conspiracy of the ruling set-up.
