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issue, in obvious reference to media reports of a possible split in the party. One view was that since voting for the motion might lead to snap elections it was better not to "rock the boat too violently". (Hindu 29.4.02) 29 th April Naidu sets 11 th -hour date in LS (7) HYDERABAD, April 28. — Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu will play his cards at the eleventh hour. The Andhra Pra-desh chief minister has decided to wait till the Prime Minister replies in the Lok Sabha before deciding on how the TDP would vote on Tuesday's censure motion over Gujarat. "Let us see how Mr Vajpayee reacts as head of the NDA during the discussion," Mr Naidu reportedly said at a Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party meet here. "What's- the need for us to decide now? There would be several developments till the end of the debate and we could assess their impact," (Statesman 29.4.02) 29th April Jaipur is haven For Gujarat homeless (7) JAIPUR, APRIL 28: WORRIED about the safety of their women, 43 members of a Sheikh Muslim family from Halol near Godhra caught the Jaipur-Bandra train within two hours and escaped. To a life full of uncertamity. Huddled together at Jaipur's Muslim musafirkhana, they are now caught between hope and despair. Sanwra Bano, SO, her bloodshot eyes mirroring her tension, says she left behind six members of her family. The eldest of them, 48-year-old Iqbal Sheikh, stayed back to look after their property and give courage to the few in the Bassa Baba ka Mohalla who stayed on. "They are living in constant fear but many do not have the money to leave. (Indian Exp 29.4.02) 29 th April Five killed in Gujarat violence (7) AHMEDABAD, APRIL 28: FRESH bout of communal violence today killed five persons, four of them in police firing, here despite a peace march led by Defence Minister George Fernandes and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with an appeal to isolate perpetrators of the carnage. Four persons were killed when police opened fire in Man-inagar and Kalupur localities and one person was stabbed to death in labour-dominated Gomtipur area, police said. In all, 18 people were injured with ten of them receiving bullet injuries and three crude bomb injuries. Police resorted to firing in Chandola Lake areas of Mani-nagar and Kalupur to disperse mobs hurling stones and indulging in arson. (Indian Exp 29.4.02) 30 th April Paswan quits over Gujarat (7) New Delhi, April 29: THE NDA was dealt a double blow on the eve of the crucial vote in Parliament on the Gujarat issue. President K.R. Narayanan issued a strong message to the nation on Monday appealing for communal harmony in the state; and Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan quit from his post of Coal and Mines Minister in the NDA government. The President said, "I appeal to all my fellow citizens to restore communal harmony and do everything to end the communal violence that has devastated the state and continues to occur even after two months...." The message is particularly embarrassing for the government, coming as it does on the eve of the Opposition-sponsored Lok Sabha debate and vote on the continuing violence in Gujarat. (Hindustan Times 30.4.02) 30th April Two killed in Ahmedabad blast (7) AHMEDABAD AND BARODA: April 29: Two persons were killed in communally sensitive Kalupur area in Ahmedabad early on Monday morning when a bomb they were carrying exploded on the terrace of their house. The police fired 89 rounds and lobbed 73 teargas shells to quell rioting mobs in Dhanasuthar ni Pol, Khiskola Pol, Kalupur Tower and Panchpat-ti localities of Kalupur area injuring 30 persons. Thirteen are reported to be in a serious condition at V.S. Hospital. Sporadic incidents of arson were also reported from Asarwa area of the city where miscreants torched hutments. Indefinite curfew has been clamped in Gomtipur and Kalupur areas following the violence. Indefinite curfew was clamped in Kapadwanj, about 60 km from Ahmedabad, after mobs took to streets following a stabbing incident. The injured person has been admitted to a hospital. (Asian Age 30.4.02)
1 st May 2002 Three killed in Gujarat violence (7) AHMEDABAD/VADODARA: Three persons, two in Vadodara and one in Ahmedabad were killed in continuing clashes in Gujarat late on Monday night. A large mob In Ahmedabad one person was killed in police firing in the Ranip area of Sabarmati when an irate mob set a plastic factory on fire which led to stone throwing. Interestingly, the police fired only seven rounds at Sabarmati in which two persons were injured of which one died and three others were injured by teargas shells and stones. Explosions continued in the Bakar Ali ni Pol area of Kalupur through the night where one person was seriously injured. (Times of India 1.5.02) 1 st May 2002 India’s secular character in danger: Opp (7) New Delhi: SENIOR OPPOSITION leaders on Tuesday painted a grim picture of the state of affairs in the country under the Sangh Parivar's hegemony and accused even Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee of behaving like a representative of the Hindutva brigade and not the Prime Minister. While moving the motion under rule 184 on Gujarat in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav argued that the 'Prime Minister's obstinacy in not removing chief minister Narendra Modi was shocking as Gujarat had raised larger questions of India's fate as a secular state. While his colleague in the People's Front, CPI-M leader Somnath Chatterjee went a step further, alleging that the Sangh Parivar had come out openly to implement its Hindutva agenda, former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar said he , already saw signs of fascism and little space for democratic politics had been now left in the country. (Pioneer 1.5.02) 1st May 2002 Omar offers to resign, PM is yet to accept (7) New Delhi: The National Conference’s Omar Abdullah, minister of state for external affairs has submitted his resignation from the government but Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is yet to accept it 'Making his resolve to quit the Vajpayee government quite apparent, Mr Abdullah chose not to sit on the treasury benches during the Lok Sabha debate on Gujarat under Rule 184 on Tuesday. Mr. Omar Abdullah told reporters that since his party, the National Conference, had chosen to abstain during the voting on the motion under Rule 184, it would be morally incorrect of him to remain in the government while not voting in favour of it. (Asian Age 1.5.02) 1 st May 2002 Orissa district is tense as tribals burn church (7) Bhubaneswar, April 30: Tension prevailed in Koraput district of Orissa after a group of about 100 tribals torched a church in Badgada village on Thursday. According to the police, no casualty has been reported although 20 to 25 people were inside the church when the tribals set it on fire. Reports said Badagada village comprises of eight Hindu and seven Christian households. On the occasion of Chaita Parab, a tribal festival celebrated on Wednesday, around 100 tribals congregated for worship at the village temple, which is about 200 metres away from the church. However, the next day, some tribals found the idol rnissing from its original place. Suspecting the hand of someone from the Christian community behind the vanishing of the idol, the tribals rushed to the church and set it on fire without serving any warning. (Asian Age 1.5.02) 2 ND May 02 Let’s make a new Gujarat: Sonia (7) AHMEDABAD, MAY 1. The Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, today came down heavily on the ruling BJP as it stood for "corruption, communalism and mal-administration." ddressing a farmers' rally at Porbandar, Ms. Gandhi condemned both the Godhra carnage and the post-Godhra violence in the State. Without naming the BJP or the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, she said those who were at the helm of affairs could have prevented the communal holocaust but did not do so only to take political advantage of the situation. Referring to the Godhra carnage, she said the perpetrators of the Godhra carnage were "devils". But what followed the train tragedy was equally shameful and condemnable. Those who did not try to prevent it were turning 'Gandhiji's Guj-arat into Godse's Gujarat', she said. Hitting out at the Prime
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