At the podcast show of famous American YouTuber Lex Fridman, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also spoke about the 2002 Gujarat riots. PM Modi told in the show that the Godhra incident was an unimaginable tragedy and this tragedy was the spark of Gujarat riots. PM Modi said that my government was going to present the budget on 27 February 2002. Then we got information about the train accident in Godhra. This was a very serious incident. People were burnt alive in train coaches. You can imagine how the situation must have been after all previous events? There were more than 250 riots in Gujarat before 2002.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while talking about the 2002 riots in Podcast with Lex Fridman, said, “Before you talk about the 2002 riots, I would like to present a picture of previous years to give you a proper estimate of the situation. On 24 December 1999, the aircraft coming from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked and taken to Kandahar … In 2000, there was a terrorist attack on the Red Fort in Delhi. On 11 September 2001, the US twin towers were attacked a terrorist attack. In October 2001, there was a terrorist attack on the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. The Indian Parliament was attacked on 13 December 2001. These were global -level terrorist attacks, who smoldered global instability.
No major riot took place in Gujarat since 2002
PM Modi further informed that on 7 October 2001, I was to become the Chief Minister of Gujarat on 7 October 2001. On 24 February 2002, I became an MLA for the first time. On February 27, my government was going to present the budget, when we were informed of the Godhra incident, before which there were more than 250 big riots in Gujarat. The riots of 1969 lasted for 6 months. Our opposition was in power and he tried his best to punish us in these false cases. Despite their efforts, the judiciary analyzed the entire order of events in detail. The accused have been punished. While there were consecutive riots in Gujarat before 2002, there has been no major incident after 2002.
I was born in a small village of Gujarat- PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was born in Vadnagar, a small town in Mehsana district of Gujarat, about this village, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, ‘I was born in Vadnagar, a small village in Gujarat, in the environment I lived, my school and village had some characteristics. When I used to go to school, there was a wage, he used to tell me that if you go somewhere and have written something good there, then bring it to a corner of the school. ‘
There is a 12th century temple in my village- PM Modi
PM Modi said- ‘As I grew up, I came to know that my village is very historic. Where Hindu, Jain and Buddhist were the center of education of all three religions. The 12th century temple in our village is still there. When I became the Chief Minister, he got some places excavated, which found 2000 years old evidence, after which a museum of old things was built in our village. At the same time, I also see the miracle that my work place Kashi is also the most historical. Which is hundreds of years old.
