Ahmedabad: Reacting sharply to justice Krishna Iyer's Tribunal report indicting Gujarat caretaker Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others as responsible for post- Godhra riots, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on November 22 charged "Leftists and secularists" for "siding with radical Islamic movements like the Tableegh Jamaat to defame the Hindu community".

Addressing reporters, Praveen Togadia, international general secretary of VHP, said, "Leftists and secularists forces are defaming the Hindu community at the international level by using the post-Godhra riots as a platform."

He asserted that "VHP will meet this challenge with all the might at its command".

Togadia described the Tribunal report that indicted the Sangh Parivar for the post- Godhra riots, as a "heinous attempt at protecting the role of the radical Islamists of Tableegh Jammat in the Godhra killings"

PTI