‘Sabarmati Report Defies Ecosystem With Courage’: Amit Shah Lauds Film On Godhra Tragedy

Last Updated:November 18, 2024, 13:43 IST

Sabarmati Report is a film based on Godhra train tragedy. After PM Modi’s endorsement of the film, Amit Shah has also lauded it.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah (PTI Image)

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed ‘The Sabarmati Report’, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday lashed out at the “ecosystem” stating that the film exposes the truth behind the fateful episode to “broad daylight”.

Shah said that the ecosystem cannot keep the truth at bay forever no matter how hard it tries.

“No matter how hard a powerful ecosystem tries, it cannot keep the truth hidden in darkness forever. The film #SabarmatiReport defies the ecosystem with unparalleled courage and exposes the truth behind the fateful episode to broad daylight,” the Home Minister said.

The film is based on the February 27, 2002 incident when 59 people, including 10 children, were burnt to death in a train by a mob at Godhra in Gujarat.

PM Modi Lauds Sabarmati Report

PM Modi, who is currently on a three-nation visit, endorsed the film on Sunday stating that “fake narrative” regarding things can last for a short time and the facts have come out through this film.

“Well said. 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,” PM Modi tweeted.

What Is Godhra Train Tragedy?

Narendra Modi was sworn in as the chief minister of Gujarat in 2001 and it was not even a year since when on February 27, 2002, four compartments with the S6 bogey of a train carrying Karsevaks who were returning from a religious event in Ayodhya were set on fire.

The train was running from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur to Gujarat’s Ahmedabad.

The eyewitness account revealed that as the train departed Godhra, emergency brakes were pulled and mobs attacked the train from outside and set the bogey on fire, killing 59 people.

The incident is widely termed as the trigger for the 2002 Godhra riots.

There have been several films made on the riots, however, The Sabarmati Report seems to be the first such film that attempts to portray the painful episode in which 59 human lives were burnt to smoke.