By IANS,
Gandhinagar : A day after he was questioned by a Supreme Court-appointed panel over his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, Chief Minister Narendra Modi shared the dais with Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan here Sunday at the first annual convocation of the Gujarat National Law University.
Modi was reportedly keen that his questioning at the hands of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) be completed Saturday itself due to the convocation Sunday. “He wanted the questioning done with and over before the GNLU convocation,” sources close to him said.
The children of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri, who was killed during the riots, had appealed to the chief justice of India not to share the platform with the Gujarat chief minister. Jaffri’s children are now based in the US.
The online appeal had come from Jaffri’s daughter Nishrin, elder son Zuber and son-in-law Najid who urged both Justice Balakrishnan and Justice Ahmed Musa Ebrahim of Zimbabwe, the guest of honour at the convocation, not to share the dais with Modi.
The function went off without a hitch. The chief justice is the ex-officio visitor of GNLU and the chief minister ex-officio patron.