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assured of the Govern ment's commitment to their welfare. The delegation complained that though the community has been targeted — their prayer sessions interrupted recently at a school, for instance — the po lice had been "inactive in bring ing the communal forces to book (Hindu 24.11.02) 25 th Nov. People should speak against intolerance (7) CUTTACK, NOV. 24. The eminent journalist and MP, Kuldip Nayyar, today warned that India like the former Soviet Union will disin tegrate if the people fail to speak out against religious intolerance and injustice. Delivering the Nabakrushna Choudhury memorial lecture here, Mr. Nayyar regretted that the spirit of tolerance, accommodation and human values was slowly shrinking and "we are not speaking out against the injustice corruption and intolerance". Mr. Nayyar said politicians who were supposed to build the country had betrayed it and what happened during the emergency still persisted. He said politicians had destroyed the country and politics had sunk to an all-time low. Today, Rajya Sabha seats are being openly sold and even the political parties are charging a fee from 'House aspirants'. In Parliament at least 20 per cent of the members are history-sheeters, (Hindu 25.11.02) Absence of pre-emptive measures led to carnage (7) NEW DELHI, NOV. 24. Taking a strong view of the failure of intelligence agencies to anticipate the potential dangers of the Godhra carnage earlier this year, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Empowerment of Women noted that it was the absence of pre-emptive measures which led to the violence, death and destruction of the magnitude witnessed. In its report on 'Violence against women during riots', tabled in the Lok Sabha recently, the com mittee took a stern view of the fact that instead of taking preventive measures, the violence was sought to be explained as a fall-out of Godhra. Also, it noted with regret that no effort had been made by the State machinery to either confiscate the widely circulated hate literature or identify those responsible for the circulation, which further vitiated the atmosphere. (Hindu 25.11.02) 26 th Nov. BJP MLAs disrupt Buddhist meet (7) Bhopal: A group of BJP MLAs forced their way into the venue of the International Buddhism Conference here on Monday and disrupted it, alleging that the organisers were distributing a booklet which insulted Ram, Sita and Hanuman. The booklet "is dirty, has vile intentions and has portrayed Ram, Sita, Hanuman and even Krishna in a light which would hurt every Hindu's senti ments", said Bhagwan Das Sabnani, BJP district president, who sat on a dharna protesting against its distribution. Trouble started after the inauguration when chief minis ter Digvijay Singh left for a Press conference. As the first session got underway, BJP's leader of the Opposition Babulal Gaur, ac companied by MLAs, rushed to the state assembly auditorium, went up to the dais and shouted that the stall outside was dis tributing a booklet which de graded Hindu Gods. Subsequently, the BJP ac tivists took to the streets, burnt copies of the booklet and staged a dharna. Home minister Ma-hendra Baudh, who is convener of the Buddhist meet, said the government would give a fitting reply to the BJP. (Times of India 26.11.02) 28th Nov. 14 foreigners embrace Hinduism (7) KOZHIKODE, NOV. 27. Fourteen foreign nationals who are here to attend an international sym posium on Vedic astrology have embraced Hinduism. The con version ceremonies were per formed at the office of the Arya Samajam here in the last two days. Two of them later got married according to Hindu re ligious rites at the Azhakodi Devi temple here. The Arya Samajam "purohit" (priest), Indrajit Singh, who performed the rituals to initiate the foreigners into Hinduism, told The Hindu that he had received a few more similar requests. The foreign nationals having the U.S. and British passports have assumed Hindu names. (Hindu 28.11.02) 29 th Nov.
VHP carrying out hate campaign: Christian council (7) BHUBANESWAR, NOV. 28. Express ing concern over the incidents of attacks on Christians in Orissa during the past few months, the Global Council of <strong>Indian</strong> Christians has alleged that the Ekal Vidyalayas (single teacher schools) run by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in the tribal dis tricts of the State were carrying out a hate campaign against the-Christians. "The Ekal Vidyalayas were in dulging in hatemongering and perpetrating hatred against Christians by assiduously build ing up hate zones, and the Christian community in those areas were living in fear," ac cording to Sajan K. George, na tional convener of the Council. While appealing to the Cen tral Government to institute a CB1 inquiry into an incident of burning of the Bible in Sundargarh recently and such other at tacks in different parts of the State, the Council also urged the National Commission for Mi norities to protect the Chris tians in the tribals areas of Orissa. (Hindu 29.11.02) 30 th Nov. SC gives Babri VIPs a reason to celebrate (7) NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 29: THE 10th anniver sary of the Babri Masjid demolition a week away, the Supreme Court today effec tively pushed back the chances of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and Cabinet ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati being ever tried for their alleged complicity. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India G B Pattanaik endorsed the Mayawati Government's decision to split the already delayed case into two. This is despite the Allahabad high court's order in February 2001 upholding the framing of charges against the three ministers and over 40 other accused arraigned by the CBI. (<strong>Indian</strong> Express 30.11.02) Law against genocide needed (7) MUMBAl, NOV. 29. In the absence of any law in the country against genocide, it would be "difficult to have the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, prosecuted in any interna tional court," according to Justice (retd.) P.B. Sawant, a member of the Citizens' Tri bunal that studied the Gujarat violence. His colleague, Justice (retd.) Hosbet Suresh added: "For such trials, there has to be a law in the country where the offence took place." They made out a case for a law against genocide. The two were responding to media questions after the "third" release of the report Crime Against Humanity' prepared by a panel headed by Justice (retd.) V.R. Krishna lyer of the Supreme Court on the Gujarat Carnage — they had already been released in Ahmedabad and Delhi and would be re-pleased soon in Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai too. (Hindu 30.11.02) 2nd Dec. BJP manifesto talks of anti-conversion law in Gujarat (7) AHMEDABAD, DEC. 1. The Bharatiya Janata Party to day released its election manifesto — a mixture of Hindutva and the constitutional obligation of secularism — for the December 12 elections to the Gujarat Assembly. The manifesto, which the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, preferred to call his party's "resolve rather than just promises," gives no sops for the members of the battered minority community except assuring them of "peace and safety as well as development and progress" for all religious and linguistic minorities as required under the Constitution. But, the party has promised to en act an anti-conversion law and "study the utility of madrassas (religious seminaries) in the 21st century." It has also promised to set up a Sanskrit University and an Ahimsa University to carry for ward the promises made by the previous BJP Government. (Hindu 2.12.02) Modi plans to form youth commando force (7) Ahmedabad, Dec. 1: Devoid of a single mention of Godhra or the communal riots that rocked Gujarat, the BJP released its 15-page Hindutva-tinged manifesto, making terrorism one of its main planks for the forthcoming Assembly elections. The BJP promises arms training and weapon licences to all those interested in countering terror ism and fighting Pakistan and its evil designs. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said all this will be done under the aegis of Sudarshan Suraksha Kavach in coordination with the defence ministry, but his idea of creating a Gujarat regiment has raised eyebrows for it aims to create an organised band of militant youths at the government cost. (Asian Age 2.12.02) 4 th Dec.
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communal tension in the state. The
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6 th April Muslim schoolkids target
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minority community should be recogn
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history textbooks, you maintained a
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others (who practise different fait
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16 th April Modi. Mandir can’t di
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17 th April Four killed in Modi’s
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(class 10) and HSC (class 12) exams
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1 st May 2002 Three killed in Gujar
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opposed to the madarsa system of ed
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22nd May Gujarat yet to submit repo
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justice that those against whom all
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10 th June Gujarat on the boil, two
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Ahmedabad: Forty-four of the accuse
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in an outflow of crores of rupees o
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Modi lectures Gujarat police (7) Ah
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moral dilemma, the country needs th
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