‘Hindu nationalist’ Modi kicks up storm with puppy remark

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said he didn't feel guilty for the 2002 Gujarat riots, in which more than 1,000 people were killed, but said he felt as sad as an occupant of a car that runs over a puppy. In an interview to Reuters — the first since he was named BJP's chief campaigner for the 2014 elections and is largely seen as its PM candidate — Modi said, "I would feel guilty if I did something wrong." Besides, he said, the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) had given him a "thoroughly clean chit".

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