New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari today said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did not follow Raj Dharma after the 2002 Gujarat riots in which more than 1,000 Muslims were killed.
"All political parties respect Atalji, but in the matter of Gujarat communal riots, he did not follow the raj dharma", said Tewari, when asked why the government was not bestowing the Bharat Ratna on the former PM.
On the snooping by Gujarat police on a woman, Tewari said, there have been clear cases of human rights violation in the state since 2001. He queried: "Was it all being done for Sahib or Sahibzada?"
