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Gandhinagar, May 4: SENIOR POLICE officers with whom K.P.S. Gill held a series of meetings on Saturday, are learnt to have told the former Punjab Police chief that the law and order machinery had collapsed in the state because they were given clear instructions to go soft on Bajrang Dal and VHP activists. Sources Said the IPS officers told Gill, who has been appointed security adviser to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, that this directive was given to them at a meeting of top officials on the night of the Godhra incident on February 27. To the constable on the street, this instruction on "leniency" meant inaction, and it soon degenerated into complicity with the VHP-Bajrang Dal workers. (Hindustan Times 5.5.02) 5 th May Chorus of protests against Gujarat pogrom (7) NEW DELHI, MAY 4. Accusing the Sangh Parivar of engaging in ethnic cleansing in Gujarat, academicians, scholars, political activists and social workers today urged all "secular" parties to formulate a joint strategy to defeat communal forces and restore confidence among the minorities. "Use of religion and caste for political gains has made an adverse impact on society. It is responsible for negative polarisation of masses which is affecting peace and integrity of the nation," they lamented while speaking at a conference on "Meeting the Challenge of Growing Communal Violence" organised by the Society for Communal Harmony in the Capital. Urging political parties to shun their petty political interests and work towards upholding the secular character of the country, the participants lamented that caste and religion-based politics has hurt the integrity and progress of the nation. Urging people to foil all attempts to disintegrate the country, they asserted that the need of the hour was to strengthen bonding of love and compassion between different communities. (Hindu 5.5.02) 6 th May Seven killed in fresh flare-up in Ahmedabad (7) AHMEDABAD, May 5.— Seven persons were killed and 38 injured in fresh outbreak of violence in parts of the city this afternoon. Indefinite curfew has been clamped in Dariilimda and Shahpur. Police lobbed tear-gas shells and fired in Dani-limda and Shahpur to disperse violent mobs in^ dulging in arson, stone-pelting and stabbing. Warring groups looted and burnt shops and'destroyed property in Behrampur, Maninagar and Shahpur, Two persons were killed in stabbing incidents in Danilimda. Two persons were killed in police firing while one, died after being hit by a tear-gas shell. The body of a middle-aged man with multiple stab injuries Was found in Maninagar, police 'said, where a child was reportedly killed in a stampede. The injured, most with bullet wounds, have been admitted to city hospitals. (Statesman 6.5.02) 6th May Rs. 1,000 crores for Gujarat relief demanded (7) NEW DELHI, MAY 5. A delegation of central trade unions, which visited the riot-torn parts of Gujarat and the relief camps set up there, today demanded that the. Centre provide at least Rs. 1,000 crores immediately for relief, rehabilitation, repairs and construction of buildings. It has also asked for quick disposal of applications for compensation to facilitate early return to normality. People who are asked to go back to their places must be provided with proper security, relatives of those who have been affected by the carnage,' should be given compensation, the trade unions' team led by Gurudas Das Gupta, general secretary of the AITUC, said. "Rs. 150 crores allocated is too inadequate. (Hindu 6.5.02) 6th May Jain TV chief ends fast for peace (7) Ahmedabad, May 5: Emotions were running high as the chairman of Jain TV, Dr J.K. Jain ended his seven-day fast in presence of governor Sunder Singh Bhandari by accepting a glass of juice from Dr Naimunnisa Kadri, a Muslim lady doctor serving at the Shah-e-Alam camp here on Saturday. Various groups promised to work for peace even after Dr Jain left for Delhi and noted the "coincidence" that since the last three-days, there had been no untoward incident of violence in the state. The biggest casualty in the lasf. two months' events was the1 faith of the people and the need for the hour was to increase faith between the communities, Mr Bhandari said. (Asian Age 6.5.02) 7 th May
PM wanted to sack Modi but feared reaction (7) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday gave a new twist to the controversy over the continuation of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, saying that he had decided to remove Modi but changed his mind fearing a backlash in Gujarat. Vajpayee also ruled out immediate assembly elections in the state. "I had gone to Goa making up my mind on changing the ruler in Gujarat," Vajpayee said, referring to last month's BJP national executive meeting. "Lekin satta parivartan se stithi our bigadti, yeh hamara aakalan thato kyn hamein swantantr aakatan karne ka aadhikar nahin hai? (But according to my own assessment, I felt that the change in leadership will only worsen the situation)." Vajpayee stated this while intervening in the Rajya Sabha debate on the Gujarat censure motion moved by the Opposition. (Times of India 7.5.02) 7 th May All over at 355, Rift mars match (7) New Delhi: IT TURNED out to be a unique case of disagreement wreathed in consensus. Despite the Rajya Sabha unanimously passing a censure motion on Gujarat seeking effective Central intervention under Article 355 of the Constitution, both the Government and the Opposition stuck to their contradictory positions. While the Opposition reiterated its demand for the removal of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee rejected it saying, "Observing raj dharma does not mean only relinquishing the chair." On the other substantive point, while the Opposition insisted on Central intervention under Article 355, the Government asserted such intervention does not essentially mean putting the State Government on notice. However, the resolution was adopted in the Rajya Sabha by voice vote. This is the first time when a Government has accepted an Opposition's motion under Rule 170 which calls for making an intervention under Rule 355. (Pioneer 7.5.02) 7 th May In Gujarat, a sewer is safest place (7) Ahmedabad, May 6: First it was the police x atrocities and "biased" behaviour towards them. Now it is the fear of the police allegedly taking away valuables from their homes "forcibly" during combing operations that is plaguing residents of communally sensitive areas in the Walled City. As a result of this, fear psychosis has gripped the minority community in riot-prone areas of .Gomtipur, Juhapura, Shah Alam and Shahpur. Residents have started finding innovative means to protect their valuables from being "forcibly taken away" by policemen during the combing operation. (Asian Age 7.5.02) 7th May Gujarat cops failed to read the riot act during carnage (7) NEW DELHI.'MAY 6 WHEN two former police officers and an IAS officer who has resigned, blame the Gujarat government for taming a blind eye while the state, burnt and continues to burn the remark is bound to lead to introspection. At a seminar on Role of Police in Gujarat,'. former Delhi Police commissioner Nikhil Kumar ' blamed the state for allowing people to take law in to their hands. "The police is usually in the know of trouble makers and those who are likely to cause trouble. Was any preventive action taken?" Kuitiar asked. He had a word of caution for the Gujarat police: They need to buck up their morale. Kurnai, former DGP KS. Subramanyam and Harsh Marider, whoresigned from the IAS r£-cenuy$>lained the Gujarat govern-ment for the total collapse in law 7 th May There is no reason Modi won’t listen, says Gill (7) New Delhi, May 6: Supercop K.P.S. Gill, whose hurried return to New Delhi from Ahmedabad sparked off wild speculation about his reluctance to take over the new – assignments will be returning to Ahmedabad to function as the security adviser to Gujarat chief ministwer Narendra Modi. Reticent and cautious, Mr. Gill was unwilling to make any predictions even as he insisted that he had no reason to believe that Mr Modi would not cooperate in the restoration of law and order in the violence-torn state and follow his advice to the letter. (Asian Age 7.5.02) 7 th May Two stoned to death; 10 hurt in Godhra bus blast (7)
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journalist with The Times of India
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Shaik Mahboob Ali and M.A. Majid, p
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3 rd March Mosque in Bihar saved by
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Gandhi." In the last seven days, th
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