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Tehelka blames it on Sangh Parivar, Modi

New Delhi: Tehelka on Thursday claimed that it had “irrefutable” evidence that the killings of Muslims post-Godhra train carnage in Gujarat was “not a spontaneous swell of anger but a genocide” planned and executed by top functionaries of the Sangh Parivar and the State authorities “with the sanction” of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Editor-in-Chief Tarun Tejpal said at a press conference here that the weekly magazine had done a sting operation over the last six months, talking to a number of Sangh Parivar leaders including Godhra BJP MLA Haresh Bhatt, Shiv Sena leader Babu Bajrangi, who was earlier in the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and VHP leaders Anil Patel and Dhawal Jayanti Patel to bring out the truth.

BJP’s charge

The BJP reacted sharply saying Tehelka was acting as “CIA [Congress Investigating Agency] and it was a collusive sting which could hardly be called investigative journalism.”

Party spokesman Prakash Javadekar said the “dirty tricks department” of the Congress was at work again in view of the Assembly elections.

None of the leaders caught on camera in the expose was available for comment, except Mr. Dhawal Jayanti Patel, who said Mr. Bajrangi had not talked to him during the riots and he had not seen the sting operation. — PTI

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