For a "modern-day Nero", to quote the Supreme Court's description of Modi who had dismissed the 2002 riots, which claimed more than 1,000 lives, as "stray incidents" in a letter to the president of India, to seek forgiveness is astounding. If anything underlines his intention to move from Gujarat to the national stage, this is it.
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