Category: Politics Tags: sonia gandi provoked me: narendra modi | Posted by laraib 1627 days ago
NEW DELHI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that it was Congress president Sonia Gandhi who provoked him into making his remarks on Sohrabuddin's killing during an election rally.

In an exclusive interview to Times Now , Modi said: "I began talking about development, about agriculture and primary education. But when Sonia Gandhi, in her first rally in Gujarat, called me a 'merchant of death', I had to react because in a democracy it is my duty to take the truth to the people of the country."

On allegations levelled against him in the Sohrabuddin case, he said that he had kept quiet over the issue despite all sorts of allegations flying thick and fast in the case but was provoked by the Congress.

Modi also said that reactions to his statement reeked of pseudo-secularism.

"I fail to understand why all anti-social activities and terrorism is linked to the minorities. People should talk about a terrorist and his act, not about his clan or religion," the BJP leader said.

Gujarat chief minister's controversial remarks over the death of Sohrabuddin have caused a lot of furore, even pushing senior advocate KTS Tulsi, who defended the state government in the Supreme Court in the fake encounter case, into declaring that he would opt out and return the brief.

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