Parikar said this in an interview to New York Times&#39; India blog &#39;India Ink&#39; which was uploaded Wednesday. Speaking about the riots of 2002, Parrikar said: &quot;It should not have happened. The administration should have clamped down on any violence. (If I were in his place) I would have ensured (that) but Modi was new to the job as chief minister.&quot; Parrikar, considered close to Modi, also conceded that the Gujarat violence was a blot on Modi&#39;s career but said the Gujarat chief minister was not &quot;personally a part of it&quot;. &quot;If he is guilty by connivance he should be punished, but investigations have given him a clean chit. People who oppose him do so because they fear him,&quot; Parrikar said. He said the riots were a product of administrative failure and that everything need not be blamed on Modi alone. &quot;What happened then was unfortunate, but that does not require his apology. It requires his correction and he has done that. &quot;There were many reasons why people lost control in 2002 after the bodies (of Hindu pilgrims from an earlier attack) were shown on TV. &quot;It should not have happened, the administration should have clamped down on any violence,&quot; Parrikar said. The prelude to the interview refers to Parrikar &quot;an affable face of the Hindu right and says that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumnus &quot;impressed middle class Indians by taking economy class flights, by hailing a taxi himself at the airport, and with clean governance in his state, when political excess and corruption are commonplace&quot;. To a question whether he considers himself a potential candidate for the post of prime minister, Parrikar is quoted as saying: &quot;No, not at all, I am not a candidate.&quot; Parrikar also said that at a time when Manmohan Singh was seen as a lame duck prime minister and the central government was in a &quot;perpetual state of suspension&quot;, Modi had emerged as a hope amongst the youth. &quot;In these circumstances, particularly young people see an alternative model in Modi, and if they want him as prime minister they will have to elect his local representative. &quot;Also, a substantial number of businessmen are likely to back the BJP this time, and they will also go for Modi. &quot;I believe a national mood is forming to put the BJP in power and Modi as prime minister,&quot; he said.u00a0

Goa's Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Wednesday that he would have ensured a better job than Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riot phase in 2002

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