The Left parties on Thursday reacted strongly to the findings of the sting operation by Tehelka magazine, and asked the UPA government to act immediately and put Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi behind bars as %u201Che is the main culprit and organiser of the Gujarat genocide.%u201D
They said what had been in the realm of speculation has now been proved beyond doubt. CPI leaders AB Bardhan and Shamim Faizi said Modi has no right to continue in the office now.
Senior CPI(M) leader Mohammad Salim said: %u201CThis is how Modi wanted to utilise the passion invoked by the Godhra incident to help his vote-bank politics on the heap of dead bodies.%u201D
%u201CIt is unfortunate that despite the outcry by the entire country, the perpetrators of violence and genocide were not brought to book. Instead Modi got himself rewarded by getting re-elected through hoodwinking the people of Gujarat.%u201D
Salim asked the Centre to take all necessary steps against Modi and his team so that he should not have the opportunity to stage an %u2018action replay%u2019.
