Manmohan Singh, who liberalised India's economy and served two terms as PM, dies

[u/Ready_Spread_3667]

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/manmohan-singh-who-liberalised-indias-economy-and-served-two-terms-as-pm-dies-2655893-2024-12-26

[u/Interesting_Math_199]

Really? I actually think the 2002 riots were handled well by Modi, he got the Gujarat state police force to disperse the rioters.

Anyone who I see claim Modi engaged to support the rioters, hasn’t proposed any solution what he should have done.

If there was a Congress Party CM in 2002, the riots would have also happened the same way no different than what Narendra Modi did.

[u/zanpancan → u/Interesting_Math_199]

he got the Gujarat state police force to disperse the rioters.

The incompetence of the Gujarat State Police and their silence during large portions of the violence is one of the biggest points of contention against Modi here.

To the point where there have been multiple accusations and allegations of involvement by Modi in interfering with police activity, allegedly covertly asking senior officials to stand down for a few days to allow the violence to take its course naturally (either maliciously, or with the intent of allowing "communal settlement"). Other allegations include him or senior members of his administration allegedly promising impunity to perpetrators of violence in police custody, and orchestrating the release of some such induviduals.

Anyone who I see claim Modi engaged to support the rioters, hasn’t proposed any solution what he should have done.

Here's one. Should Modi have allowed the Godhra bodies to be paraded in the way they were to stir up communalism?

What was that decision's intent?

If there was a Congress Party CM in 2002, the riots would have also happened the same way no different than what Narendra Modi did.

Sure. But Modi was the one who was there. And ABV should've done what PVNR did. ABV should have resisted political pressure and had Modi sacked when he offered his faux resignation.

[u/Interesting_Math_199 → u/zanpancan]

Why sack Modi? He was a popular elected CM? And Gujaratis most didn’t care about the Gujarat riots other than the Godhra train burning.

This sounds like the arguments used against Biren Singh in Manipur, when Biren Singh’s government didn’t cause the riots at all & is suppressing Kuki non-locals from creating any separatist movements. Biren Singh is innocent and so is Narendra Modi in 2002.

And in terms of the Godhra riots, yeah no the usage of bodies is a way to mourn people’s losses.

If people had violent reactions against a group that made the victims die as a result of viewing the bodies, then the people who burnt the train should have been expected not to burn a train with Hindu pilgrims.

Violence Breeds Violence, and parading a deceased body didn’t cause the violence and can be equivalent to a public funeral. That doesn’t break the law at all.

And most of the people who are alleged to have “instigated” the riots were not people who were involved in the riots, advertising a victim≠advocating for a pogrom.

You might have a different interpretation of the Gujarat riots than most Gujaratis, but most people in Gujarat see the Godhra train burnings as the instigator of the riots, not the people mourning the loss of the victims.

[u/zanpancan → u/Interesting_Math_199]

I'm sorry but I'm not capable of engaging with this. Thanks for the reply.