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Bajrang Dal leader said he felt like Rana
Pratap after Naroda killings
Wednesday August 29, 2012 03:53:29 PM,
IANS
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Ahmedabad: Babu Bajrangi, the Bajrang Dal leader
convicted by a Gujarat court Wednesday in the massacre of 97
Muslims in the Naroda Patiya case, had been boastful of his role
in inciting the riotous mob to kill, saying he felt he had "done
something like Maharana Pratap".
In a sting operation by Tehelka in 2007, Bajrangi had boasted of
how he had collected bombs and guns and mobilised a group to
massacre the Muslims in the Ahmedabad locality on Feb 28, 2002.
His reason: anger over the burning to death of 59 kar sewaks in
the Sabarmati Express at Godhra station on Feb 27.
"I could not bear what I saw… The next day, we gave them a fitting
reply," he told Tehelka.
Asked by the Tehelka reporter if he was present during the
killings, Bajrangi said: "Yes, yes, I was with them… So the Godhra
incident happened and after what I saw, I just came back to Naroda
and we took revenge."
Bajrangi took the mob through Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gaon,
peopled mostly by Muslims. Most of those killed were either hacked
or chased into a huge pit and set on fire.
"I came back after I killed them, called up the home minister and
went to sleep… I felt like Rana Pratap, that I had done something
like Maharana Pratap… I'd heard stories about him, but that day I
myself did what he did."
Maharana Pratap was a 16th century Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar in
Rajasthan who fought against the Muslim invaders to protect his
kingdom.
Bajrangi and former BJP minister Mayaben Kodnani are among the 32
people convicted in the massacre, one of the worst instances of
mob killing during the 2002 riots in which 1,000 people, mostly
Muslims, were killed.
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