A Gujarat court’s rejection of a petition seeking the prosecution of Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots has brought no change in US visa policy for him. Modi was denied a diplomatic visa to the US in 2005 over the riots, was welcome to apply for a visa and wait for a review which will be grounded in American law. There has been no change in their visa policy, since then. Modi has proved himself ‘unstoppable’ once again. Though the Supreme Court has yet not ruled that the accused Chief Minister is the culprit, nor has anyone else proved him guilty. So far, he is not proven guilty but still doesn’t live scot-free. He was not granted visa to US but still he is set to talk to the Indian Community in North America via satellite from Gandhinagar. There are talks that people might be over-estimating him for his abilities but fact is, even the campaigns of Rahul, Sonia and Manmohan collaboratively failed to move him out of power in his own state. He has done everything to propagate across the nation and has always spoken of unity among party members. He was a keynote speaker at Gujarat Day celebrations across North America; he has not only won the hearts of Indians in USA but has also proved that where there is a will, there is a way. I do have my own reservations when it comes to Modi’s applause and his work of courage. He has put the message, very loud and clear that even the US cannot stop him.

One cannot underestimate the personal tragedy, riots have brought to the victims and justice has to be done to them. The shrill campaign unleashed outside of the judicial forums has now to be toned down. It has to be remembered the Supreme Court in its wisdom and after overseeing the probe of the SIT did not have any material disagreement with the process followed by the SIT. Now, another lower court has looked at the protest petition and rejected the petitioner’s contention. It’s time that we focus on undoing the terrible impact of riots through assertive action and material solace and stop focusing on one individual who has gone through enough judicial scrutiny. Kodnani has been found guilty and she is serving her sentence. If Modi is not found guilty, then he might be innocent. If anybody has political grudges against him then he or she should fight against each other in any elections. Voters will decide his fate. Probably, this controversy will go on till his death or people will give weightage to the statements. In spite of courts declaring that they had not found his involvemen,t there are people who think themselves above all courts. I fail to understand, why the press gives so much weightage to such reports and publish them. In the Ishrat Jahan case, her mother and counsel declared her as innocent girl killed in cold blood but no one has answered how she was with three dreaded Pakistani and Indian terrorists. She was with them at least for 4 days as per her mother’s admission. This is scandalous and our investigative press who is always in search for sensation has not investigating this angle to publish worthless news. The press is not interested in price rise, development, fall of rupee and so many other economic issues concerning the common man. Leaving aside this controversy, even BJP as party went wrong in matters which are concerned with Modi.

Karnataka was a big mess for Modi and people started booing him. Though the fact is, he did not campaign across Karnataka. Members of BJP still have reservation for choosing their leaders because they felt that they are the right candidate. Nitin Gadkari, the then BJP national President, was one such person who was on fire as BJP was ruling the state . By the way, where is Gadkari now? After so much of chaos and losing Karnataka, Rajnath Singh is ready to invite and accept Yeddyurappa’s returns in party. They realised without his support Karnataka is not possible for BJP to conquer.

BJP members are selfish and self-centric. Of course, we know that BJP governance was better than Congress in both the terms but that was due to leaders like Atalji. Many BJP leaders hate Nitin Gadkari because of his financial scams and his open support for Modi (when others did not like him in the centre at that time).

Today, BJP members are hailing Modi because they do not have any other choice. However, they will support him only till he is clean (like Gadkari); once the accusation turns real, leaders will not hesitate to go against him either. Lack of unity, integrity of thoughts, unclear vision, loose party governance and over all chaotic attitudes amongst party members have served as a severe downfall of the party. In Karnataka, Yeddyurappa’s led Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) was one of the factors for BJP’s downfall in the state. Saffron party is more affected by the spoilers. In Gujarat, the party has been weakened because of Keshubhai Patel led Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP). Congress was utterly nowhere in the scene. In Delhi, AAP marked its success and spoilt BJP’s dream. Today Arvind Kejriwal will swear in as Delhi’s seventh and youngest chief minister.

The biggest spoiler of BJP will neither let BJP win nor will they support Congress. AAP is just another spoiler with last P-factor like KJP and GPP. Everyone from BJP and RSS wants to be a political hero but fails to understand that one must first follow the master to become the master. The corruption in BJP members is less than that of the Congress men. The Congress Party will soon be in chaos and BJP will have its time to hit the hammer when iron is molten red. However, if the BJP goes on weakening, then there will be more spoilers produced by the party itself. The party will land up into broken pieces and a slightly bigger stone will again win the coming elections.

The fan following of BJP has increased. People have chosen different parties for different elections. They feel that cleaning up starts from their own household and proceeds nationwide. When they do not see progress in their areas, they do not see progress anywhere. BJP needs to be a bit more united and be strong at places where it already holds the power, prove their worth with progress and come up as a rising star. The faith in both the parties is going down, the coming election results will be based on not who has risen up but, by who has stooped low a bit lesser than the other.

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Ahead of General Elections, 2002 riots case was hanging like a naked sword on BJP’s Prime Ministrial candidate NarendraModi. Congress and media had already declared him communal and a culprit. Some NGOs were hell-bent on bashing him. However, Gujarat court on Thursday gave clean chit to him in 2002 riots. The court rejected the petition of ZakiaJafri, whose husband EhsanJafri was burnt alive during the riots, challenging the closure report of a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team.Zakia’s husband, former Congress MP EhsanJafri, was killed in the riots along with 69 others in one of the worst massacres at Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. Proceedings in the matter ended on September 30. It was on September 12, 2011 that the Supreme Court had said it would no longer monitor the case after the SIT cleared Modi of the accusation that he had failed to discharge his constitutional duty to intervene swiftly to stop communal riots. The case was sent back to the lower court.

Gujaratis are the people to judge Modi. They have voted him to power three times consecutively. If they held him guilty of the charge, they wouldn’t have chosen him to be the CM for threeterms. This very fact absolves him of any such malicious charges. He has proved his worth as an able administrator; the US which declined him Visa too has acknowledged this fact. Undoubtedly, he deserves to be a Prime Ministerial candidate. Little of elegance and modesty – that is what it takes to change insights. Modi was defined by the Gujarat riots of 2002 because he has not been tactful enough to confess, despite attacks from all corners over a decade. He never said the riots were unfortunate and that he feels sorry for the lives lost. His prime, and ineradicable, identity has been that of a hardcore Hindu nationalist. The image makeover as the messiah of development came after 2007. For people who arefollowing him since Ayodhya Ram Temple Movement, through the riots of 2002 and the Gauravyatra, it would be difficult to set him apart from political Hindutva, with all its negative implications.

Modi had announced three-day Sadbhavana fast to embrace Muslims. The fast, started on his 61st birthday on September 17, 2011 had launched his campaign to become BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. Since 2002 till now, not a single riot happened in Gujarat. All the people are living in peace. When a mistake happens, it has to be rectified and not be repeated again, that’s how life goes. However, by raising 2002 riots issue, again and again Congress and other so called secular parties are playing communal politics. When Modi became CM of Gujarat, Congress was not happy and they were trying to capture power in this state like they took power in Karnataka. So, Congress made a plan for newly, administratively inexperiencedModi by burning a train at GodhraRailway Station in which majority of children and women were killed. Congress knew that Hindus will definitely react to this. Everyone was in a hurry to declare him responsible for 2002 riots, but the SIT claimed that it could not find any prosecutable evidence against the accused persons regarding their involvement in the alleged conspiracy behind the riots. It had even refused to treat IPS officers like RB Sreekumar, Rahul Sharma and Sanjiv Bhatt as witnesses on the ground that their statements are hearsay evidence. On the other hand, Zakia has alleged that the SIT has been shielding Modi and others by not believing statements given by these police officers and neglecting the available evidence. Zakia has accused the SIT of playing the role of a court by adjudging the truth of the available evidence. Her lawyers contended that the investigation was incomplete and the probe agency had not even done it seriously. On the opinion of amicus curiae RajuRamachandran that Modi may be prosecuted for inciting communal hatred, the SIT has said that there is no evidence to prosecute him, and the incident alleged was beyond the ambit of its probe. Anyways,Modi got clean chit here.

Congress is planning its plan B to get Modi again.The union government has cleared an inquiry into whether NarendraModi and his government in Gujarat illegally spied upon a young woman architect. The Centre’s plunge into the controversy known as “stalk-gate” has been revealed by the BJP. Stalk-gate rests upon secretly-recorded phone conversations in 2009 between a former senior police officer in Gujarat, GL Singhal, and other members of the anti-terror squad in the state. Singhal submitted many of these tapes to the CBI. The conversations allegedly establish that the woman was being tailed at the instructions of a “saheb” or big boss – Modi, according to the Congress. I hope the probe will start very soon and the Sahebwill come out of it and once again,Modiwill clear his test…