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Politics of hate: Getting away with rhetoric easy
Published on Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:14, Updated on Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:32 in 
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The Election Commission on Thursday decided to issue a notice to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after his controversial justification of the Sohrabuddin fake encounter. Modi had on Tuesday shocked the nation when at a rally he said Sohrabuddin “deserved” his death.
But on Thursday, at another rally in Katlal, he squarely blamed Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi for his justification of Sohrabuddin’s death.
He later also backtracked saying fake police encounters "cannot be accepted" and he has never justified it.
Meanwhile, the Gujarat government's counsel in the case, K T S Tulsi, has already withdrawn from the case.
Modi now has to explain to the EC by Saturday, how he did not break the model code of conduct in his speech in Mangrol on Tuesday. So should politicians be prosecuted for provocative speeches of hate? That was the question discussed on the show Face The Nation hosted by Vidya Shankar Aiyar.
On the panel to debate the issue were Lord Meghnad Desai, writer and noted economist, Ashok Desai, senior lawyer at the Supreme Court and Prakash Javadekar, BJP spokesperson.
Party-pooper
While on the issue of EC issuing Modi a notice the BJP seems to have washed its hands off the case, Prakash Javadekar disagreed. “We believe in constitutional mechanism. Maybe the Congress does not since the party chief called Modi, an elected Chief Minster, a ‘merchant of death.’ And I would really want to know what is communal about what he said. He was talking against terrorism. Why are you communalising terrorism? We don’t recognize terrorism by religion,” he said.
But K T S Tulsi claimed the exact opposite, claiming that the Gujarat government is against fake encounters. So wasn’t Modi inciting people just when the elections are around the corner?
“No. He made it very clear that fake encounters are unacceptable. Sohrabuddin was a phenomenon, why are you making it an individual name?” asked Javadekar.
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i do not appreciate this form of biased , hindu bashing journalism , hindu pride will always win . in
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The Anchor...was total baised in this show... sagarika was good... she alway had a balanced ... This Anchor was hosting
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CNN-IBN and other news channels were gleefully watching when
Sonia called Modi “merchant of death”, other congress members
called people of
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The poll results u r showing r by people who know modi as shown by media.And I must say Media
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