Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, in an interview published in The New Yorker, on Sunday said that one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biggest successes has been to “get the court” to acquit him in the 2002 Gujarat riots case. In the interview, Sen spoke to Isaac Chotiner about the current state of the Indian democracy, and how not all is lost yet. For the latest news and more, follow HuffPost India on Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to our newsletter. When asked about Modi’s connection to the 2002 Gujarat riots that killed over a thousand people, and still getting elected, Sen said, “One of his big successes has been to get the court to squash the case against him and the Home Minister, Amit Shah, in the Gujarat killings of 2002.”Sen said because of this, not many Indians believe that Modi had a part to play in the riots. Sen who has been a harsh critic of the current BJP government also said that while Modi was a dynamic politician, he did not have the “breadth of vision” about the country.

Source: Huffington Post October 07, 2019 11:15 UTC