As Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi reaches out to console victims of the October 27 Patna blasts, survivors of the 2002 Gujarat riots ask why he hasn't met them even once since 2002. Noor Bano Saiyed, 45, and her family survived the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre.

Since then they have lived at Citizen Nagar - a riot rehabilitation colony constructed by an NGO. Not once in the past decade has Modi visited the locality. She wonders whether she even is a resident of Gujarat. Bano said "He has not come to meet us in the past 12 years. Are we not citizens of this state?" Another riot survivor Zakir Hussain said, "Modi did not come to meet us or ask us our condition even once. The Muslim committee gave us these homes.

" Modi to meet Patna blasts victims, 2002 riots survivors say he has ignored them Gujarat police slams Bihar counterpart over In his campaign speeches Modi has pitched the Gujarat model and boasts of inclusive development. But the Citizen Nagar rehabilitation colony tells a different story. Citizen Nagar is located just beside Ahmedabad's largest garbage dump.. There's dirt and filth everywhere and residents don't have basic facilities - like roads, sanitation or even a school.

Shahjehan Bano Shaikh, a Citizen Nagar resident, said, "These are the worst conditions possible. No roads, gutter or school here. Children have to travel 6 kms to school. others don't go to school at all." While six people were killed and 83 others injured in seven bomb blasts in Patna on Sunday, in Gujarat 59 Hindu karsewaks returning from Ayodhya is Uttar Pradesh from Sabarmati Express were killed when their bogie was set on fire near Gujarat's Godhra station which was followed by massive riots across the state in which hundreds of Muslims were massacred.