New Delhi, Dec 18: The CPI-M today deplored the remarks made by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee yesterday that the Muslim community had not sufficiently condemned the Godhra massacre and accused him of "echoing" the RSS-VHP line on the Gujarat incidents. "Does the Prime Minister seriously believe that condemnation alone (which actually did take place) would have restrained the VHP-Bajrang Dal mobs from resorting to the carnage which took place?" the CPI-M polit bureau asked in a statement here. It said coming from the Prime Minister such a stance was equivalent to "condemning" the entire community for the crime committed by a few and will be seen as "justification" for the "mass killings" of minorities in the state.
Charging him with "echoing the RSS-VHP line on the Gujarat incidents", it said the BJP cannot escape the responsibility to bring to justice all those who indulged in mass killings and serious crimes in the state during and after the Godhra incident. Bureau Report