Whether or not the usage of “puppy” analogy by Narendra Modi while referring to the genocide in Gujarat was intentional and well thought out to cause polarization. His remark was not only distasteful, but also vicious and vituperative.
It is a frontal attack on the values and importance one has for a fellow human being. It is not only a sign of moral degradation and decay, but also reflects the hollowness in thinking and wisdom.
Today, if he could equate the brutal killing of over 2,000 men, women and children with a dog coming under the wheels, tomorrow, he would shrug off the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people as a few bulls getting astray during a bull fight. Instead of being utterly remorseful for the carnage, which happened with full complicity of the state headed by him, he is today in making a mockery of the people who lost their lives.
In a well-researched article “The Gujarat Pogrom of 2002,” Prof. Paul Brass, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Washington, has recounted the manner in which the minority was targeted in Gujarat following the burning of two compartments of train in Godhra in 2002. While asserting that post-Godhra carnage was well prepared and well rehearsed, he has quoted from the 600-page report by Justice Krishna Iyer in which it stated that that the killings constituted “an organized crime perpetrated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government.” The report also noted that the violence was pre-planned and executed with “military precision” by the Sangh Parivar with the state’s complicity.
It is not just for the secular forces to condemn such a despicable statement, it is for all human beings to disassociate with the person who holds such a lowly view. — Safi H. Jannaty, Dammam
Modi’s familiar vituperation
