<p>AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has avoided talking about the 2002 riots while touring Gujarat "because everyone knows what happened in 2002", party leader Manish Sisodia said Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In any case, Kejriwal and he (Sisodia) were in Gujarat to verify claims of all round development made by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, said the former Delhi minister here.<br /><br />"Modi has been going around the country for one year and claiming that he has eradicated corruption and brought development to Gujarat. <br /><br />"But we came to know after coming here that whatever he was saying is a bubble," Sisodia told a television channel.<br /><br />The two Aam Aadmi Party leaders are on a "study tour" of Gujarat. Kejriwal, a former Delhi chief minister, is slated to address a rally here Saturday.<br /><br />Sisodia said the entire country knew what happened in 2002 in Gujarat when the death of 59 Hindus in a train burning in Godhra led to widespread communal riots leaving more than 1,000 people dead. <br /><br />"What happened in 2002 was a blot for our country," Sisodia said. "But everyone knows Modi's version and the country's version of those events."<br /></p>
<p>AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has avoided talking about the 2002 riots while touring Gujarat "because everyone knows what happened in 2002", party leader Manish Sisodia said Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In any case, Kejriwal and he (Sisodia) were in Gujarat to verify claims of all round development made by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, said the former Delhi minister here.<br /><br />"Modi has been going around the country for one year and claiming that he has eradicated corruption and brought development to Gujarat. <br /><br />"But we came to know after coming here that whatever he was saying is a bubble," Sisodia told a television channel.<br /><br />The two Aam Aadmi Party leaders are on a "study tour" of Gujarat. Kejriwal, a former Delhi chief minister, is slated to address a rally here Saturday.<br /><br />Sisodia said the entire country knew what happened in 2002 in Gujarat when the death of 59 Hindus in a train burning in Godhra led to widespread communal riots leaving more than 1,000 people dead. <br /><br />"What happened in 2002 was a blot for our country," Sisodia said. "But everyone knows Modi's version and the country's version of those events."<br /></p>