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Nitish Kumar deferred Godhra probe to save Modi: Lalu
Wednesday April 17, 2013 08:44:48 PM,
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Patna: Rashtriya
Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Wednesday alleged that Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar as the union railway minister in 2002 had
deferred a probe into the setting on fire of Sabarmati Express at
Godhra station to save Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
"Nitish Kumar deferred an inquiry into the Godhra incident after
Narendra Modi approached him. Had Nitish ordered a probe, things
would have been different," Lalu Prasad told reporters here.
The Godhra incident had led to widespread riots in Gujarat in
2002.
The former Bihar chief minister said Nitish Kumar cannot escape
the responsibility for the riots in Gujarat. "Silence of Nitish
Kumar on the issue as the railway minister tells a different
story," he said.
Pointing out that it was he who ordered a probe into the Godhra
incident when he became the railway minister, Lalu Prasad said:
"It is a big question as to why Nitish Kumar did not order a probe
into such a serious case."
His comments came a day after Nitish Kumar defended himself
against allegations by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which
blamed him for the 2002 Gujarat riots.
"I was railway minister then (in 2002) and my responsibility was
the safety of trains, not to maintain law and order. It was the
state government's responsibility," Kumar said here Tuesday after
BJP leaders blamed him for the riots after he targeted Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi without naming him.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal chief also said that Nitish Kumar lost
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to prove himself as a secular
leader when after the Gujarat riots he did not quit as the railway
minister in the National Democratic Alliance government led by
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Nitish Kumar has repeatedly been targeted by Lalu Prasad for not
ordering a probe into the burning of the train at Godhra in which
over 50 people died.
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