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Modi should be tried for rights violations, says Congress

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NEW DELHI: Raising the pitch of its attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress on Monday said the BJP leader should be tried and convicted for human rights violations.

Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said, “Mr Modi’s track record on the issue of human rights is abysmal. Those who think we are hesitant to raise it are mistaken.”

He however added that for the Congress Gujarat Assembly elections were not about a single issue and a single person.

“It is about the failure of the BJP on all fronts, on all facets, one of the major reasons being that the party is held hostage by one person…Even the former Prime Minister had to remind him to follow ‘raj dharma’.”

He said Mr. Modi deserves to be tried and convicted by Indian courts and also by the International Courts of Justice. “For a person of his track record, the phrase ‘merchant of death’ is a mild phrase,” he said.

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