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Manmohan promises re-look into riot cases
Manas Dasgupta
AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to take a “re-look” into the investigations into the 2002 communal riots-related cases if the Congress is voted to power in Gujarat.
Talking to journalists here and in Vadodara after addressing election meetings on Tuesday, Dr. Singh said he did not believe in the “politics of vindictiveness.” But he did not see any harm in taking “a re-look” into the riot-related cases, if anyone had “serious grievances” over the probe.
He declined to comment when asked if Congress president Sonia Gandhi was to be blamed for firing the first salvo against Chief Minister Narendra Modi by calling him a “merchant of death.” Elections should be fought on the basis of development and social and economic issues. But many things were said “in the heat of the moment,” he said.
Dr. Singh denied that the Congress was trying to influence the Election Commission on the question of issuing notices to Ms. Gandhi and the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh. The Congress “takes pride in the independent functioning of the EC.”
To a question on the BJP naming L.K. Advani the prime ministerial candidate, Dr. Singh said in Vadodara that the party might have “sensed some dangers” from Mr. Modi and hence decided to “anoint” Mr. Advani immediately.
“PM’s chair right now not vacant”
To a similar question in Ahmedabad, he, however, said: “It is an internal matter of the BJP, and I am not competent to comment on it.” He reminded the Opposition party that the “Prime Minister’s chair right now is not vacant.”
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