PM Modi Endorses The Sabarmati Report Movie
In an X post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsed the Vikrant Massey movie The Sabarmati Report which based on the Godhra train burning incident of 27 February 2002, involving Sabarmati Express train.
After sharing an X post on the movie, he said: “Well said. It is good that this truth is coming out, and that too in a way common people can see it. A fake narrative can persist only for a limited period of time. Eventually, the facts will always come out!”.
Well said. It is good that this truth is coming out, and that too in a way common people can see it.
A fake narrative can persist only for a limited period of time. Eventually, the facts will always come out! https://t.co/8XXo5hQe2y
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 17, 2024
Produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures, along with Amul V Mohan and Anshul Mohan, The Sabarmati Report movie claims to be based on the real events surrounding the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002, killing 59 people, mostly Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya. The movie is alleged to be political propaganda dressed in a factual thriller, presenting only one aspect of the incident.
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It was alleged that the right-wing groups used and abused the incident, resulting in a widely polarised Gujarat for political gains. Then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was alleged to have been complicit in the following riots that killed over 1,000 people, mostly from the Muslim minorities, by allegedly giving a free hand to the rioters to unleash violence against the victims.
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Among others, claims were made that inflammable liquids were thrown onto the train bogies when the train stopped in an area where Muslims were the predominant residents. Notably, the report of Ahmedabad’s Forensic Science Laboratory on who lit the fire in coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, 2002, had confirmed that the bogie was set on fire from inside, not from the outside, pointing out that the bogie’s window was seven feet high, making it difficult to throw flammable liquids into the bogie from outside.
Notably, all the communal blame was born by creating a narrative pointing fingers at the Muslim community as responsible for the incident. An inquiry commission set up by Congress-led UPA government found that the incident was an accident.
The court also acquitted 63 people, including the prime accused, Maulana Umarji, Mohammad Hussain Kalota, Mohammad Ansari, and Nanumiya Chaudhary. However, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe concurred with the charges of the prosecution that this was not an incident of unplanned mob outrage and rather it involved conspiracy.
Since then, there have been allegations that the right wing misused the incident to target the people from the minority community, and thus for political rise. The movie The Sabarmati Report allegedly caters to the right-wing political narrative by presenting one aspect of the incident while trying to sideline the one, discarding it as western-influenced biased reports.
