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including "what is the meaning and content of the ex pression 'minority' in Article 30 of the Constitution?" (TOI 3.4.02) 3 rd April Riots spread to Kutch, too (7) AHMEDABAD/ANJAR: Two days ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to riot-hit areas of Gujarat, sporadic incidents of violence continued in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Anand and Ankleshwar on Tuesday. Communal violence also erupted in Kutch, which had been relatively calm during the past one month when riots scarred the rest of the state. Indefinite curfew was clamped in Anjar town on Tuesday after damage to three places of worship. Idols in two temples, besides a dargah and 25 shops were damaged. The police fired five rounds to disperse the mobs. Kutch collector H.N. Chibber said the situation worsened after reports of damage to the idols spread in the town. Two temples and a dargah were damaged around 9.30 a.m. As many as 55 persons from both the communities have been arrested. (TOI 3.4.02) 3 rd April Gujarat officials work overtime to present clean image to PM (7) AHMEDABAD: The deadline is Thursday. List of things to be done include: Cash doles for riot victims, a dictat to ensure there is no fresh rioting in urban areas and, of course, sparkling clean relief camps. Effort to give a clean image to Ahmedabad has begun in earnest with the bureaucracy in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar working like a well-oiled machine. Holding high-level meetings, issuing stringent orders to keep matters shipshape— especially at the 48 relief camps in and around Ahmedabad — the top-brass of Gujarat was hard at work till late on Tuesday. Their agenda is one-point — a city at its primmest when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee comes visiting on Thursday. After all the Gujarat chief minister's fate might be hanging in balance. (Times of India 3.4.02) 3rd April BJP edits NHRC report (7) NEW DELHI: Upset at the criticism of the Narendra Modi government by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday accused the media of "one-sided coverage of the NHRC report". Worse, in a one-page note made from extremely selective pickings from the rather damning 17-page NHRC report, the party actually tried to establish that the panel had in fact "appreciated" the role of the Modi government. But a reading of these excerpts, along with the original report, indicates that it is the BJP which is guilty of a "one-sided reading" of the report. The party has blatantly excised critical observations from the midst of paragraphs quoted, without providing even the customary ellipsis. For instance, it quotes the NHRC as saying,"The Commission has taken good note of the 'Relief, Rescue and Rehabilitation Measures' undertaken by the state government. In many instances, strenuous efforts have been made by collectors and other district officers, often acting on their own initiative." (TOI 3.4.02) 3 rd April RSS guards Modifrom PM (7) New Delhi, April 2: Prime' Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's hands have been effectively tied by the RSS which is opposed to any action against its new protege, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Riding high on RSS and Vishwa Hindu Parishad support, Mr Modi has refused to follow Mr Vajpayee's directive to begin large-scale rehabilitation of the victims, ensuring instead that the remaining houses are gutted by arsonists in Ahmedabad. Mr Modi has been severely indicted by the National Commission for Human Rights but the report has elicited no response from the government at the Centre. (Asian Age 3.4.02) 3 rd April Violence now spreads to Anjar, acid attack on police (7) Ahmedabad, April 2: Mobs targeted policepersonnel in different parts of Gujarat on Tuesday as violence continued to spread to new areas. Baroda police commissioner D.D. Tuteja escaped an acid attack in Nawabvada Patni area as he tried to quell two stone-pelting mobs. Police personnel were attacked by mobs at Anjar in Kutch and Ankleshwar in south Gujarat, compelling the police to o'pen fire in which three persons were injured. In Ahme4abad, four people were stabbed in different localities and the Army had to
e summoned in Khanpur area after mobs went berserk late on Monday night. One person died in police firing at Umreth and 12 have been admitted to hospital with serious injuries. (Asian Age 3.4.02) 3 rd April Ahmedabad may see a Bhopal rerun (7) Ahmedabad, April 2: IF THE recent trend of attacks on industrial estates here continues, Ahmedabad could see the kind of tragedy that hit Bhopal in 1984. About half-a-dozen industrial units in the city have been attacked in the last 10 days and many of them are chemical factories, which, if attacked, could send out toxic fumes on a large scale. Since Gujarat produces one-fifth of chemicals and ancillary products — including paints, plastics and pharmaceuticals -there are thousands of storage and processing facilities dealing with hazardous chemicals, especially around Ahmedabad. "We shudder to think of the consequences if any of the godowns or units are set on fire by miscreants," said the owner of a chemical unit. (Hindustan Times 3.4.02) 4 th April Violence erupts again on eve of PM’s Gujarat visit (7) AHMEDABAD, APRIL 3. On the eve of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to the riot-hit areas in Gujarat tomorrow, at least nine persons were killed in violent incidents. Six of them were burnt alive in Abasana village in Ahmedabad district. Some of the walled city areas in Ahmedabad were brought I under an indefinite curfew today after the city witnessed pitched battles between two groups in Gomtipur where two persons were killed and nine injured in police firing. One person was killed in the police firing in Umreth in central Gujarat. Police beat up people in Gomtipur and Vejalpur, severely injuring at least 80 persons. The continued disturbances figured in the Assembly and the House was adjourned sine die after it completed:the, remaining business of the current budget session in the absence of the Opposition members who were suspended earlier for disrupting the proceedings. (Hindu 4.4.02) 4th April Gujarat family of five burnt alive (7) Ahmedabad, April 5: Gujarat continued to burn on Wednesday, the eve of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit, shattering Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's claims of normalcy and the state government's facade of law and order. Five members of a family, the only Muslims in ,a populatioift of 2000 at Abasan village, about 70 km from Ahmedabad, were burnt alive by mobs from a neighbouring village on Wednesday, the 34th consecutive day of violence. Ironically, the-entire village had participated to the wedding of a girl of this Muslim family just six weeks ago.Prime Minister Vajpayee will be visiting Gujarat on Thursday for the first time after the riots. During his one-day visit, he will go to Godhra and then fly to Ahmedabad where he will visit one Hindu and one Muslim relief camp. (Asian Age 4.4.02) 4 th April Pamphlets used to provoke Hindus (7) Ahmedabad, April 3: Inflammatory literature in the form of pamphlets continues to be circuited in Ahmedabad. Pamphlets urging people to "drive out" members of minority community and "come, let's unite to form a Hindu Rashtra" are being circulated in in the Old City areas of Ahmedabad. If pamphlets reading "Jago! Utho Vicharo: Amal Kara Desk Bachavo Dharma bhachavo! Hindustan ko Pakistan mat banne do (Awake! Arise! Implement! Save the nation and religion! Don't let Hindustan turn into Pakistan)" are being used to provoke Hindus, others incite Muslims with messages like, "Masjid banakar rahegi, ham kafiro ko masjid to kya smashan bhee nahi banane denge, har musalman ki khwaish hai (Masjid will be constructed at any cost; Forget the temple, we will not allow construction of a crematorium also by atheists. It is the desire of every Muslim)." Many leaflets urge Hindus to pledge not to buy anything from Muslim-owned shops and also support the boycott of films starring Muslim actors. According to Intelligence Bureau sources, as many as 20 such pamphlets with provocative literature are reportedly being circulated in predominantly'Hindu and Muslim areas. (Asian Age 4.4.02) 5 th April
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justice that those against whom all
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shops, and vehicles of Muslims. His
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10 th June Gujarat on the boil, two
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Modi, who showed up at the BJP head
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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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submitted a memorandum to the presi
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TENSION HAS gripped the communally
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dargah is located, has refused to a
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Age, Anand district superintendent
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moral dilemma, the country needs th
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Hurriyat leaders held in Srinagar (
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the Hindu religion". He emphasised
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AHMEDABAD, JULY 28. An indefinite c
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BANDHINAGAR, AUG. 11. The President
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order and freedom from fear. In a d
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Gandhi." In the last seven days, th
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train on fire from the inside. His
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Bhilai, August 19: RUMOURS ABOUT co
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Malda, Aug. 22: Sakiruddin became S
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10 TH September India secular, not
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"constructed by demolishing 27 Hind
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unfortunate". The conference is sch
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