Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, speaking to an Urdu magazine, claimed that he was ready to be hanged, if found guilty of complicity in 2002 Gujarat riots. Interestingly the newspaper is edited by Shahid Siddiqui, an MP of the Samajawadi Party from Lucknow. While Modi has made such claims in the past, this is the first time he has spoken about the communal clashes in Gujarat to an Urdu magazine.It is significant that Modi chose to talk about post-Godhra violence to an Urdu weekly after having walked out of television talkshows when prodded on the riots.

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