People's Democracy

Narendra Modi Must Quit

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on April 16, 2013.

THE information available from the documents available from the Supreme Court ordered investigation into the Gujarat carnage in February 2002, provide clinching evidence of the deliberate refusal of the Modi government to act to prevent the mass violence against the minority community, in spite of repeated urgent messages and information from police in different areas.

It is indeed a matter of deep regret that the SIT chose to ignore such a damning indictment of the state government and gave a clean chit to Narendra Modi, raising questions about its own credibility. In the light of these documents which have now come into the public domain thanks to the efforts of Zakia Jafri, there can be no doubt left of the direct culpability of Narendra Modi as the main accused who ignored the warnings of his own police force and presided over the violence. Justice demands that the SIT final report be rejected and a fresh charge sheet filed including Narendra Modi as an accused.

The documents are a shameful and horrific record of the utter contempt of the Modi government for even the most minimum norms of governance.

The CPI(M) demands that Modi must resign as his continuance in office with access to the state machinery will enable him to subvert the judicial processes which are on in the case in Gujarat.