Hang me if I have sinned... the Modi interview

Excerpt from Gujarat CM Narendra Modi's interview with Shahid Siddiqui, editor of the Urdu-language weekly newspaper Nai Duniya...

Q Senior Congress leaders including Rajiv Gandhi apologized after 1984 [communal riots]. And [Jagdish] Tytler was made to quit politics. You haven't regretted your actions or apologized until now. It has been 10 years. You should have done it as a head of state.

A.You should see the statements I made at that point. From that you will understand what Modi thinks and believes. There was a 2005 interview of mine with Prabhu Chawla. He asked me the same question and I told him, why should I apologize? If a government is responsible for this, then it should be hanged in the middle of the road.

And they should be hanged as a deterrent -- so that no administrator dares to do this again. They should not be forgiven, because that is encouraging the crime. If Modi has sinned, then Modi should be hanged. But, even after trying sincerely to save many lives, some people want to badmouth me due to political reasons, then I cant answer them.

Full interview in a bit.