New Delhi: Narendra Modi says that he is ‘sad’ about the 2002 Gujarat riots but has no guilt, and that no court has “come even close to establishing” it.
“I never waste my time in confrontation”, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is quoted as saying in a just-published biography written by a British author and TV producer Andy Marino.
The 310-page book deals with the riots in some detail with “hitherto unpublished, authenticated documents”.
It discloses that after the riots Modi wanted to resign as chief minister but was prevailed upon by the party to continue.
Marino says that the BJP strongman had confided to him “possibly for the first time in an on-the-record interview, that he no longer wanted to be the chief minister after the riots because he had decided it was unfair on the people of the state who had been subjected to extreme abuse because of him”.
