"The BBC does not have an agenda – we are driven by purpose. And our first public purpose is to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them," said Tim Davie.
Union parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi defended the move to grant approval to release the 11 convicted men, saying, “I don’t find anything wrong in it as it is done as a process of the law.”
A recent Supreme Court judgement, relying on the SIT report on the 2002 Gujarat violence, dismissed charges of "criminal conspiracy" against Modi and others.
Many still want to look at Gujarat 2002 as a sort of civil war inspired by the two-nation theory, but it is about an elected government which failed to conduct itself by the norms of governance – and swore by an ideology.