PM Modi to watch 'Sabarmati Report' in Parliament today
It is good that this truth is coming out, posts PM on X
New Delhi, Updated At : 12:19 PM Dec 02, 2024 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File photo
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi would attend the special screening of "Sabarmati Report" organised by Lok Sabha Secretariat at the GMC Balayogi auditorium in the Parliament House complex at 4 pm om Monday.
The screening is being arranged for MPs. Earlier, Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Ashwini Vaishnaw also organised screenings of the film on their part.
"The Sabarmati Report", a Vikram Massey starrer on the events behind the 2002 Godhra train burning incident, hit theatres on November 17, with Modi, in rare public comments about the issue, saying, "the truth always comes out."
"It is good that this truth is coming out, and that, too, in a way common people can see it. A fake narrative can persist only for a limited period of time. Eventually, the facts will always come out!" Modi said on X as the film, produced by Ekta Kapoor, opened in India.
The film directed by Dheeraj Sarna is based on the Sabarmati Express train burning incident on the morning of February 27, 2002 near Godhra train station in Gujarat.
As the train departed from Godhra fire in four coaches of Sabarmati Express killed 59 people including 27 women and ten children returning from Ayodhya.
The incident led to brutal riots in Gujarat under then chief minister Narendra Modi who faced criminal charges in the matter.
The case went through various layers of the criminal justice system.
The Supreme Court in June 2022 upheld the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots case and dismissed a plea by slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri in the matter.
Zakia had challenged the SIT clean chit to Modi and others.
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