And even as Sonia Gandhi was urging Muslim leaders to “Stop Modi”, some of them were voicing their resentment at an attempt to terrorise them into voting for a Congress Party that has not fulfilled its promises. Muslim supporters of Mr Modi point out that he was recently cleared of involvement in the Gujarat riots by a court-appointed investigation, and that while concerns linger, the state has seen less sectarian violence since 2002 than elsewhere. One adds that while many thousands have died in such disturbances across India, Gujarat is the first state where the perpetrators are gradually being brought to justice – in contrast with the alleged involvement of Congress figures in the riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, when more than 8,000 Sikhs were massacred.