San Francisco Chronicle: Narendra Modi’s government undermines India’s democracy. So why is Ro Khanna looking the other way?

By Asok Chatterjee

Twenty years ago, the Indian state of Gujarat was gripped by communal violence that left more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, dead. The violence erupted after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire, killing 59. Although the chief minister of Gujarat at the time, Narendra Modi, denied any wrongdoing, scholars have long suggested otherwise, and a senior police official in Gujarat alleged in sworn testimony to India’s Supreme Court that Modi deliberately allowed the anti-Muslim riots to occur.

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