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Article: Narendra Damodardas Modi. (Worldbeaters).(Brief Article)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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On the election trail he was at his crude best, combining gutter politics with a tirade of hate. He cast himself as the only one who could prevent Muslim wrath from boomeranging on the state. Asked what could be done for the Muslims rendered penniless by last year's orgy of violence, he jeered: 'What should we do? Run relief camps for them?'
SOME people call him the 'butcher of Gujarat'. To others he's India's homegrown Hitler. Whatever the label, there is little dispute that Narendra Damodardas Modi, the hatemongering chief Minister of Gujarat, was deeply implicated in the murder of hundreds of Muslims in his home state last year.
India is no stranger ...