"The court and investigating agencies have to decide on the role of chief minister Narendra Modi it the riots. Also we have no hatred against him. But we will never forgive him as even after a decade the CM hasn't even visited us once," said Shakila Bano, who lost 10 members of her family and has been one of the prime witnesses in the case. "As a chief minister he didn't even come to see our state or said a few words that would help us balm our wounds," said Nasreen Sheikh, another witness in the case. Awarding punishment to 32 convicts in the Naroda Patia massacre on Friday, the special court sentenced BJP MLA Mayaben Kodnani to 28 years imprisonment and former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi for life. The Patia residents said that Modi can't now distance himself from the case as one of their forefront party leaders has been sentenced in the case. "Kodnani was made a women and child development minister even when she was accused in this case where women and children were burnt and chopped to death. What force acted upon on the state government to ignore our allegations which the court has upheld? That is something Modi has to explain," said Salim Shiekh, Patia resident and a witness in the case against Kodnani.
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