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When Modi not guilty of 2002 riots, he can't apologise: Jaitley

Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday ruled out an apology from party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying he did not have to do it to satisfy a “fake campaign” against him. “Those asking for an apology wanted the apology to be an act of confession. If he has actually committed a mistake why apologise, he should have been prosecuted and punished for it. We can squabble over the kind of expressions one wants to use... To satisfy a fake campaign he does not have to apologise,” Jaitley said in an interaction with foreign journalists here.

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