BHARATIYA Janata Party (BJP)’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday (November 21)denied that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ever castigated him for not following the “Raj-dharma” (rulers’ duty) in the aftermath of 2002 Gujarat riots.
Addressing an election rally Gwalior, Modi referred to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech earlier in the day in Jaipur, where he said that even Vajpayee had advised Modi to abide by Rajdharma after the riots.
Referring to this, Modi said, “Whatever Vajpayeeji said is available on You Tube. Anyone can listen to it. He did not say anything like that.”
Vajpayee, in fact, had said that there was a certain “Rajdharma”, and “you were following it”, Modi claimed.
Hitting out at Congress, Modi alleged it did not do anything during its 50-year rule in Madhya Pradesh.
