New Delhi: In yet another controversy generating remark, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who recently called BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi “impotent” for not being able to stop the post-Godhra riots, has compared the Gujarat chief minister to a “nursery kid”. He questioned BJP leaders’ claims that Mr Modi had got a “clean chit” from a lower court on the 2002 Gujarat riots. Rubbishing the senior Congress leader’s remarks, the BJP said that Mr Khurshid had “denigrated the court”.
“I don’t know who has given Modi a clean chit. A magistrate’s court has not summoned him, it’s true. It’s like a nursery child getting a good grade and thinking he has become a doctor, and goes around claiming to be a Ph.D. How can that happen?” Mr Khurshid said, in response to questions by the media in Farukkhabad on Tuesday. He added: “In Gujarat, the incidents that happened when he (Modi) was CM around 170 people have been given life imprisonment in connection with that. Maya Kodnani was his minister.”
Attacking Mr Khurshid, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said: “What Salman Khurshid is saying is rubbish. He is denigrating the court. What is lower and higher judiciary?
