“This Son Of Gujarat” Owes An Explanation To India
By Mustafa Khan
31 August, 2010
Countercurrents.org
The ongoing investigation into Sohrabuddin Shaikh murder by the police of the Gujarat state is throwing up enough hints of the kind of Gujarat its chief minister Narendra Modi has created. It has been fully implicit in mass murders of Muslims in 2002 and since then in fake encounters of targeted Muslims falsely accused as terrorists. Modi has suborned and subverted judiciary system and the police. This has become a day light affair so ingrained that either the people of the state are bought over by him or simply dread to utter a word against him.
Calling himself as “This son of Gujarat” he generalizes his third person singular into first person plural “we Gujaratis are all set to fight the Delhi sultanate single-handedly.” Have the rest of the people of India lost all morality to let him and his Gujaratis only to fight the rot that has entered into the public life? Do the people of India not see that he himself is the master creator of the outlawry in his state? Moreover, how can he appropriate upon himself the right to speak for all the Gujaratis when we have a democracy in which differences of opinion is bound to be there and is a healthy sign? Can he deign (dare?) to represent the feelings of Malika Sarabhai, to give just an instance?
Modi is having a running battle with the CBI when that top investigative agency is busy inquiring into gravest charges leveled against his police and bureaucracy and. what is more, against him. He is still presiding over this kind of dispensation when he should have long back accepted the moral responsibility and resigned.
Part of the explanation lies in the fact that Modi personally supervised much of the goings on in Gujarat through proxy. (Where are the records of fifteen phone calls he made? What did he say to Ehsan Jafri when the old Member of Parliament asked him to save life of the people who sought refuge in his house?) Gordhan Zadaphia and Amit Shah carried out what he wanted. When the CBI asked Geetha Johari about Shah she maintained strict silence. This incommunicado of hers is remarkable in a grilling session of questioning that lasted nine hours! Why is she so much afraid of turning a witness in the Sohrabuddin case? Does she fear that she would risk her life like Narendra Amin who feared the same in the high security Sabarmati jail? Who has created this atmosphere of fear in the state where let alone ordinary citizens but the very highest police officers fear to turn witness? Whose shadow is stalking them that they fear to look at the person himself in the face?
Rumour mongering in the street can lead to riots but rumour mongering in the corridors of power spells doom. "There is not one day when I have not heard rumors that the CBI is about to arrest me. I am here, I am going nowhere." Read carefully all his recent speeches. The constant refrain is terrorism balanced by development in Gujarat as if he is hinting that you condone one if you want the other. Or what else is it?
In the mean time there is the procrastination playing as a thief of time. Geetha Johari is blaming the CBI Additional Director Balwinder Singh who was additional commissioner of police in Hyderabad when she conducted inquiry. Now she is blaming him for shielding Kalimuddin. She says that Kalimuddin was PWG informer of police in Hyderabad. According to her he melted among the Naxalites of the state and so next to impossible to find. Perhaps he never existed but was raised as a ghost to throw a spanner into the investigation process. The third person with Sohrabuddin was after all Tulsiram Prajapati. OP Mathur as chief of CID of the Gujarat state then misdirected her and she says he should now be called to give witness. Mathur blamed her for tampering with the evidence as she was the supervisory officer of the investigation. Both are suggesting that the onus is on the other to prove the facts. Now Mathur has moved into the police academia founded by Modi to mark 60 anniversary of Gujarat state. Perhaps we will have to wait until this chancellor Mathur of the Rakksha Shakti University inducts a PhD course in who misdirected whom in criminal investigation. And, whether there has to be a chain of command at all.
Modi hits out at Cong during inauguration spree TNN, Aug 30, 2010
Johri returns favour to Mathur during CBI grilling TNN, Aug 28, 2010
Sohrabuddin case: Geetha Johri accuses CBI of pressurising her. TOI August 28, 2010.
Modi shoots at PM to shout down IE August 29, 2010.
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