By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: After the success in getting a clarification issued from the Government of Oman that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was never invited as official guest to the country, the group has put an online petition demanding the Government of Indonesia to rescind the scheduled visit of the BJP leader under whose rule thousands of innocents were massacred in Gujarat in 2002.
Embarrassed by the Oman clarification through an advertisement in The Hindu daily on October 23, Modi and his image managers have been desperate to secure a visit to any Muslim country so that the stigma he is carrying of the bloody pogrom could fade.
The state BJP Government has worked overtime to make Modi acceptable especially after he was denied an entry in the US in 2005 after human rights groups put pressure on the US Government to not allow him enter the country. A large number of countries from the Muslim world were invited to participate in the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit in January 2009.
According to media reports Modi is trying to cash in on the proposal from the cash-rich Salim Group, founded by an Indonesian Muslim, Sudono Salim, to set up a 10,000MW coal-based power plant at Bogath in Jamnagar district. Salim Group’s Harjono Gudani, general manager, finance, reportedly met S Jagadeesan, principal secretary, energy, during the Vibrant Gujarat investors’ summit in January 2009.
“Modi is targeting smaller players in the hope to eventually move bigger ones, enabling him to come to the center and become the Prime Minister some day. We got to stop that,” said the group that made the online petition.
The petition can be signed at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/modi09/petition.html
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