TO MR. DIGVIJAYSINGH ,the then CM MADHYAPRADESH GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT No. SB.V/ISS/102002/173 Home Department (Spl.) Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar Date:- 1/3/2002 To: The Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal. (Madhya Pradesh). Sir, As you are aware the ghastly incident of burning down of 58 passengers in the Sabarmati Express on 27th Feb., 2002 has had serious fall out on the law and order situation in Gujarat. Widespread incidents of arsoning, looting, murder and other violence have been reported from most part of the State since yesterday. The State Government has been trying its best to utilise all its available resources and has also requested Government of India to spare additional manpower for maintaining of law and order. However, Government of India has not in a position (sic) to spare more paramilitary forces in view of its commitment elsewhere. As the situation is spreading to villages and major highways are also being blocked, our resources are stretched to the maximum. We feel that the services of additional forces from neighbouring States like yours would help the State Government in handling this precious law and order situation. We would therefore request you to favourably consider our request for sparing 10 companies of your Armed Police to help the Government in handling the law and order situation. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, (K. NITYANANDAM), Secretary to the Government of Gujarat, Home Department. REPLY FROM MP TOOK MORE THAN 12 DAYS ,TO SUCH AN EMERGENCY CALL t is noteworthy that Government of Madhya Pradesh took 13 days to respond and turn down the request. The other two state governments made similar excuses for denying Gujarat Government additional forces to deal with the law and order situation. The exact text of Madhya Pradesh Government’s response marked "secret" is given below. No. 1523-1557/2002/C-I GOVERNMENT OF MADHYA PRADESH HOME DEPARTMENT (‘C’ SECTION) Bhopal, dated 13 MAR 2002 From R.C. Arora, Secretary to Government. To The Secretary, Government of Gujarat, Home Department, GANDHINAGAR. Sub:- Provision of 10 Coys. Of MPSAF to Gujarat Sir, Please refer to your letter No. SB.V/MMM/102002/769, dated 1st March, 2002 regarding the subject cited matter. It is regretted that due to heavy commitments of MPSAF within the State, it is not possible to spare the force at this moment. Yours faithfully, (R.C. Arora) Secretary to Government It is puzzling why the response of MP government was marked "secret" while the request of Gujarat government for additional police had no such noting. Today, Digvijay Singh is one of the fiercest critics of Modi for his alleged "complicity" in 2002 riots. But Digvijay Singh had no answer when Modi reminded him in a meeting of the National Security Council how as CM of Madhya Pradesh he had snubbed the request for additional forces. Do these letters indicate a sense of urgency on the part of Gujarat chief minister in quelling the riots or do they show Narendra Modi to be a modern day ‘Nero’ who paid no heed while Gujarat burned? To quote SIT counsel R S Jamuar who reportedly said while defending SIT’s closure report which is being challenged by Teesta Setalvad and Zakia Jafri in a court in Ahmedabad: “What was Zakia expecting from accused number one (Modi)? That he should have gone with AK-47 in his hand to control the rioting mob” (Express News Service, April 27, 2013)
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