New Delhi (AFP) - India's controversial opposition candidate for premier, Narendra Modi, should not be barred from the job because of deadly anti-Muslim riots under his rule, one of India's most respected business tycoons says.
Software czar N.R. Narayana Murthy is the first business leader to address the issue of the 2002 riots that occurred during Modi's first term as chief minister of Gujarat state since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in September named the politician as its candidate for premier