MINORITIES - 2002 - Indian Social Institute

August 16 (that the President would then step in ... if Article 174 could not be com plied with) was passed
without any refer ence to Article 356 and it was just a passing reference. (Hindu 18.9.02)
Curfew in Gujarat town (7)
AHMEDABAD, SEPT. 17. An indefi nite curfew was clamped in Borsad in Anand district in central Gujarat
following outbreak of communal violence this morn ing. One person was killed and several others were
injured in police firing and stone-throw ing. A minor accident involving persons of rival communities turned
into a clash, reports said.. A report reaching here said the disturbances started last evening after a bicycle
and a scooter collided. Though nei ther of them sustained any in jury, a scuffle ensued between two, who
happened to belong to rival communities, with each blaming the other for the acci dent. Soon people from
both the communities gathered and indulged in heavy stone throw ing on each other. (Hindu 18.9.02)
19 th September
New chairman for State Minorities Commission (7)
JAIPUR, SEPT 18: The Rajasthan Government has appointed Hafiz Mohammed, party MLA from
Bhilwara district, as the new Chairman of the State Minorities Commission. The post of the Chairman has
been lying vacant for some months after the tenure of the former incumbent, Nizam Mohammed ended.
Two other significant appointments cleared by the State Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, today are those of
the former Minister, Madan Kaur, and a writer, Ved Vyas, as chairpersons of the State Warehousing
Corporation and the Rajasthan Sahitya Academy respectively. (Hindu 19.9.02)
Muslim organization threatens to stage protest (7)
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 18. The Jamait Ulama-i-Hind today threatened to launch a civil dis obedience
movement on October 2, against the "failure" of the Vajpayee Government to reassure the minorities
about its com mitment to the values of the Constitution. The Jamait chief, Maulana Asad Madani, said the
organisation, which stood commit ted to correcting the deviations of the Gov ernment from the path set
out in the Constitution by non-violent democratic protest, was forced to take recourse to the path since
the Prime Minister had not re sponded to its demands. The movement would be termed: "save the country
and the nation" and on the day, Jamait supporters from various parts of the country would arrive here to
court arrest. (Hindu 19.9.02)
Gujarat Govt. ready to make Modi tape public (7)
AHMEDABAD, SEPT. 18. After con sistently maintaining that there was no audio tape of the Gujarat Chief
Minister, Narendra Mo di's controversial anti-minority remarks, the State Government said today that it was
willing to make it public. "We can make it (the tape) public, we have no intention to hide anything. If
anyone asks for the tape we can give it," the Government spokesman, Purshottam Rupala, told
pressper-sons. The apparent change of tact came close on the heels of the transfer of three top State
after the leak of a departmental letter warning of a "dangerous fallout" of Mr. Modi's inflam matory
speeches and airing of the tape by a TV channel on Sunday. (Gubdy 19.9.02)
Modi shifts 3 IPS officers for speaking the truth (7)
Gandhinagar/New Delhi, September 18: LATE ON Tuesday night, the Gujarat government passed orders
to transfer three senior officers of the state intelli gence bureau. Additional DG Intelli gence R.B.
Shreekumar, DIG P. Radhakrishnan and SP Sanjeev Bhatt were the victims. Officially, the transfers are
routine, but the unofficial — and immediate — cause was a letter the intelligence bureau wrote to the
Additional Chief Secretary Ashok Narain last week, contradicting a statement Chief Minis ter Narendra
Modi made to the Nation al Commission on Minorities. The commission had asked Modi for a recording of
a speech he had made at Besraji on September 9, day two of the Gaurav Yatra, where, according to media
reports he had made anti-Muslim remarks. Modi said he did not have the recording. But the bureau's
letter said they did have tapes of the speech, which had, indeed, been anti-Muslim. (Hindustan Times
19.9.02)
BJP backs Modi, PM sidelined on the issue (7)
New Delhi, Sept 18: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has yet again been snubbed by his party on the
Modi issue. The BJP, which seemed to prevaricate and vacillate for a while over Gujarat chief min ister