Infamous for 2002 Communal Riots, Gujarat Still Not A Peaceful State: Report

A blow-by-blow study of bloody communal violence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has exploded the myth that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state has remained peaceful after the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom under his watch.

The 16-page, 2019 annual report just released by an Ahmedabad-based, self-effacing civil society organisation has also dropped a bomb shell that the communal incidents… have now spread to the quiet countryside of the state which has witnessed large-scale riots at least six times in the past 50 years, the worst one in 2002 that had left 2,000 people dead and thousands maimed.

In its document titled “Peaceful Gujarat: An Illusion or Truth?”, Buniyaad observes that the six communal riots and two mob lynching recorded in 2019 indicate that the rural areas have been witnessing regular bouts of communal clashes since 2014 when Modi took up the reins of the country….

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