13 Nov, 2013
‘Narendra Modi is a poster boy of India’s failure to punish the violent’ – Indian Express
Two top members of a US Congress constituted commission on religious freedom have expressed sadness over nomination of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), terming him as the “poster boy” of India’s failure to punish the violent.
“It was another son of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi, who once offered a broad, tolerant vision for the country and its multi-religious society,” wrote Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon, in a special op-ed Special to CNN on Tuesday.
“So, as 2014 draws nigh, whose vision will be embraced? Which India will prevail – that of religious freedom or religious intolerance? Time will tell,” they wrote.
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