Ahmedabad: Could it be the lull before the storm? Over 24 hours after the Tehelka expose indicting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the 2002 riots, no political party has come forward to make an issue of it. The Congress would certainly be hopeful, but one look at the deserted Congress headquarters in Gandhi Nagar makes one face a rather disturbing reality. In Gujarat, Modi is the only issue. He is the only issue that the BJP loves talking about. He is the only one that the Congress doesn't want to think about. So despite the Tehelka expose, the Congress doesn't seem to be too keen in taking him head on. "The revelation in the sting is obnoxious, horrible and shocking and some independent agencies should investigate this," Congress leader BK Hariprasad says. Critics say that this is just testing the political waters for the political parties. Many of the revelations made in the expose have been in public domain for a while. Now there are people admitting to their participation in the post-Godhra violence. Yet, the Congress is afraid of talking about those times. The rationale is simple. Modi was projected as a mass murderer in 2002, but he won a landslide victory. That's why his party is backing him to the hilt this time too. "It appears to be a Congress plant. The manner in which the sting operation was done clearly indicates a mindset to again bring about a sharp communal divide in the state, which is regrettable," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Whil
