Modi, in a blog published yesterday, called the post-Godhra riots a “crippling blow to an already shattered and hurting Gujarat”.u00a0Published a day after an Ahmedabad court upheld closure of a Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team’s report on the riots, Modi said he wanted to share his “inner thoughts and feelings with the nation at large”. He said he took over as the 14th chief minister of the state on Oct 7, 2001, and was given the responsibility to “soothe and rebuild” after the Jan 26, 2001, devastating Bhuj earthquake.

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