"Vithal Pandya, father of slain Gujarat minister Haren Pandya, told the Nanavati-Shah commission of inquiry on Thursday that his son had informed him that the 2002 riots were "statesponsored" and "orchestrated" by CM Narendra Modi who was the "author and architect of the riots".
"On September 9, Narendra Modi's Gujarat Gaurav Yatra rolled into Becharaji, where he delivered his by now infamous Hum paanch, hamare pachees speech -- that the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) wanted a text of for its apparently inflammatory content.The speech that the Gujarat Government claimed it had been unable to trace a copy of.
"...'I said I don't have his janam patri, I will have to ask Rajiv Gandhi. Then the journalists said, ''Do they meet in church?''. I replied, ''Maybe they do.'''
"What exactly happened on the night of February 27 in chief minister Narendra Modi's bungalow in Gandhinagar? All along there have been rumours of a late-evening meeting called by Modi on the day of the Godhra carnage in which he instructed senior police officials to allow "people to vent their frustration" over the torching of two coaches of the Sabarmati Express during the VHP bandh the following day.
