Finally the BJP won the elections in 2014 and a diehard disciple of the RSS, Narendra Modi, who is known as the butcher of
Gujerat for the massacre of Muslims there in 2002, became Prime Minister of India.
Twin mantras of development and Hindutva based on an anti-terror platform proved too potent a weapon and the reverberations were feet outside
Gujerat".1
Even now, it seems, Modi has not understood that the Indian public voted him in, not because of the massacre of Muslims that marked his assumption of the office of
Gujerat Chief Minister, but because of his development of its economy.
Darbar Alia Barilla Shareef,
Gujerat, published the biography in 1999, titled Jagte rahe kahani compiled by Muhammad Abdul Majeed Qadri-Chishti.
He was lodged in Sabir Mati Central Jail
Gujerat and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
AHMEDABAD -- Fourteen years after a mob of nearly 20,000 attacked Gulbarg society in Ahmedabad (
Gujerat State) killing 69 people, including former Congress lawmaker Ehsan Jafri, 24 people were convicted on Thursday.
The new Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has been on a US travel ban because as governor of
Gujerat State he was felt to have done too little to halt one such pogrom.
Even some Muslims in
Gujerat argue that Modi has changed since he failed to stop the sectarian riots that killed around a thousand Muslims there in 2001.
In fact, the ruins of an ancient city of substantial size have come to light recently in the Gulf of Khambhat, off the
Gujerat coast of India.
His journey begins in Coventry, where his family ran a Coundon newsagents after they fled Kenya in 1971 when he was aged three, and takes him to
Gujerat in India to trace his mother's side of the family.