Shahid Siddiqui Modi

Shahid Siddiqui first made headlines for interviewing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his Urdu weekly. He still continues to make headlines as the Samajwadi Party has disowned him for that interview. In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Kashish, Mr Siddiqui says that instead of hanging Mr Modi, the Samajwadi Party hung him.

A day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) disowned Shahid Siddiqui for interviewing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the MP and editor of the Urdu newspaper Nai Duniya, has hit back.

The Samajwadi Party has distanced itself from leader Shahid Siddiqui following his interview with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for an Urdu newspaper.

The Samajwadi Party fiercely guards its pro-Muslim identity. So an allergic reaction to even a remote and insignificant connection to Hindutva mascot Narendra Modi is quite understandable.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said that he should be hanged if he is found guilty of complicity in the communal riots in his state in 2002. In an interview to an Urdu newspaper, Nai Duniya, Mr Modi has discussed the riots in which 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims. The newspaper is edited by Shahid Siddiqui, an MP of the Sa...

Shahid Siddiqui first made headlines for interviewing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his Urdu weekly. He still continues to make headlines as the Samajwadi Party has disowned him for that interview. In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Kashish, Mr Siddiqui says that instead of hanging Mr Modi, the Samajwadi Party hung him.

A day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) disowned Shahid Siddiqui for interviewing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the MP and editor of the Urdu newspaper Nai Duniya, has hit back.

The Samajwadi Party has distanced itself from leader Shahid Siddiqui following his interview with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for an Urdu newspaper.

The Samajwadi Party fiercely guards its pro-Muslim identity. So an allergic reaction to even a remote and insignificant connection to Hindutva mascot Narendra Modi is quite understandable.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said that he should be hanged if he is found guilty of complicity in the communal riots in his state in 2002. In an interview to an Urdu newspaper, Nai Duniya, Mr Modi has discussed the riots in which 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims. The newspaper is edited by Shahid Siddiqui, an MP of the Sa...