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Amartya Sen blames Modi Govt. for violence

By Our Special Correspondent

Kolkata Aug.16. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen today held the Narendra Modi Government responsible for the communal violence in Gujarat, describing it as ``a monstrous act'' which ``could not be correlated to the poor economic development and lack of education''.

At a news conference, Prof. Sen said, ``what happened in Gujarat is a monstrous act. There was an attempt to incite a section of the population against another with political motivation.''

He criticised the Narendra Modi Government, saying that the communal violence did not happen in any other State. ``The nature of the governance in Gujarat had something to do with it.''

Prof. Sen suggested that communalism could be controlled by changing the school curricula.

``We can help to do so by making the curricula more broad-based.''

He said it was not proper to correlate communal violence with poor economic development and lack of education. ``One of the highest sectarian violence in the twentieth century occurred in Germany, a developed State, and not in any third-world country.''

He had a good word for West Bengal which, he said, was free from the evil of communal violence since 1940s.

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