Gujarat Ka Kalank
Palash Biswas
Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551
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The Citizens for Justice and Peace through its secretary Teesta Setalvad has filed an intervention application in the pending cases before the Supreme Court on Saturday asking for the recent Telekha sting operation 'Gujarat Ka Kalank' to be summoned, examined as evidence and hearings of the case be expedited immediately.
The application states that the lives of survivors and witnesses are in serious danger today with those accused of mass crimes roaming free, gloating about accused who raped, killed, made arms and conspired with the topmost authorities in the state.
This intervention application was filed in the transfer case related to the Godhra mass arson, Gulberg Massacre, Naroda gaon, Patiya massacres, Sardarpura and Ode carnages that have been pending since they were stayed in November 2003.
In the application, the CJP has stated that the brazen admission and gloating by accused of heinous crimes who are roaming free in Gujarat that they killed and slaughtered and raped innocents put the lives of over 190 eye witnesses and victim survivors in grave danger and urged the apex court to treat the issue with the immediacy of a life threatening situation.
The Supreme Court should intervene and protect lives of witnesses and the evidence, which is likely to be destroyed by the state and its agencies, immediately.
The CJP had in May 2002 itself, on the basis of the report of the National Human Rights Commission report of May 2002, asked for an independent re-investigation into all these major cases and the case has been pending since then.
Cable distribution of three major TV networks resumed on Saturday night after they were blacked out for the third day in Ahmedabad district as a fallout of the Tehelka sting on post-Godhra riots, which claimed its first victim with a government lawyer resigning.
With the controversial action triggering an outcry in the media and described as a blatant assault on the freedom of the press, the state government appeared to wash its hands off this controversial action.
Channels of three leading networks -- Aaj Tak, CNN-IBN and NDTV -- had faced the ire of the administration.
Government pleader Arvind Pandya ,who figured in the programme, put in his papers and filed a police complaint against Aak Tak and its Gujarat corresponent.
Pandya, who represents the government in some post-Godhra riot cases and also in the Nanavati Inquiry Commission, alleged he was cheated after he was told that his services were required to act in a "serial" on riots.
TV Today, which owns the Aaj Tak channel, denied the charges.
Ahmedabad District Collector Dhananjay Dwivedi, who placed restrictions on the three channels, said his instructions were misinterpreted.
Dwivedi also sought to put the onus on the cable TV operators to resume the transmission.
"The instructions were misinterpreted. It was clearly stated to the cable operators that only the particular news programmes on the sting operation on the post-Godhra riot incidents and other such programmes should not be shown. There was no ban on the networks showing other programmes," Dwivedi told PTI.
Dwivedi said the instructions given three days back were very clear and inspite of this, the channels and the cable operators acted in a hasty manner and stopped transmitting any news bulletin.
The Tehelka expose on the Gujarat carnage was a "belated attempt" by the Narendra Modi government to boost his sagging image among the voters ahead of forthcoming state assembly elections, Union Textile Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela alleged on Saturday.
"The stirring of post-Godhra communal riots was a belated attempt by the Gujarat chief minister to boost his sagging image among the voters," the minister said in Mumbai, at the sidelines of the sixth DHL CIAe International Fashion Awards.
The senior Congress leader said, "It's a complete Congress wave in Gujarat. Any attempts by the state administration to encash on the sentiments of the people through the over-exposed Godhra episode will have no impact among the voters."
Dismissing queries of negative fallout in the state elections for the Congress, Vaghela said the party is in a strong position and will be able to secure a majority.
"This was just an attempt to deflect public attention from the ongoing infighting within the Gujarat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party," he added.
"It is more like a fake encounter, to build his own image as hardcore pro-Hindu and trying to revive Hinduisim," the minister alleged.
Godhra left a deep wound: Minorities Commission
New Delhi: The Minorities Commission feels that Godhra aftermath has left "too deep a wound" in Gujarat and healing it has to be "visible" in view of the scars left by the communal violence.
"It is too deep a wound in Gujarat and will take some more time to heal. Healing the situation has to be visible," the newly-appointed Commission Chairman Mohammed Shafi Qureshi told PTI.
Qureshi, a former Union Minister, said the Commission planned to visit the state, but "does not want to mix it up with elections". The process of assembly elections is on in Gujarat where polls are scheduled on December 11 and 16.
Noting that the Commission would talk to the state government to decide suitable dates, he said the modus operandi of the panel has always been to first interact with the affected people and then talk to the administration.
"It does not take a second to destroy the confidence, but building it takes years," said Qureshi, whose refrain is that there is need to change the mindset about the minorities, may it be the issue of Sachar Committee recommendations or other matters concerning them.
Qureshi, a senior leader from Jammu and Kashmir, said a common complaint among minorities is that the progress in implementation of recommendations of the Sachar Committee or report of the Sri Krishna Commission is very slow and it needs to be expedited.
"What the minorities want is equal treatment as any other Indian citizen," he said.
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Gujarat Advocate General Arvind Pandya claims the accused have nothing to fear from the Nanavati-Shah Commission
JUNE 8, 2007
TEHELKA: Who was at the forefront during the riots?
Pandya: It will be wrong to say some were there and some were not… Practically everybody who went to the field was from the Bajrang Dal and the VHP…
TEHELKA: Did Jaideepbhai go to the field?
Pandya: Jaideepbhai had also gone… Which leaders went where, who had a role, who had a suspected role — we have before the Commission all these details, all the mobile numbers, who went where… We have the locations…
TEHELKA: Yes, some controversy also took place…
Pandya: It’s still on… And I know whose mobile numbers were there… who talked to whom, from which location… I have the papers…
TEHELKA: So can there be some problem for the Hindus because of that… for Jaideepbhai etc…
Pandya: Arrey bhai, I am the one who has to fight the case… don’t worry… don’t worry about this, there will be no problem here. If there will be a problem I’ll solve it… I have spent all these years for whom… for my own blood
TEHELKA: Can the commission’s report go against the Hindus?
Pandya: Nahi, nahi… it can create some problems for the police… it can go against them… see, the judges who have been selected are from the Congress…
TEHELKA: Yes, Nanavati… and Shah
Pandya: That’s the only problem… our leaders at the time got into a controversy in a hurry… what they thought was that since Nanavati was involved in the Sikh riots... that if they use a Congress judge there will be no controversy…
TEHELKA: So is Nanavati absolutely against you people?
Pandya: Nanavati is a clever man…He wants money... Of the two judges, KG Shah is intelligent… woh apne wala hai [he is our man]… he is sympathetic to us… Nanavati is after money…
TEHELKA: You are saying he wants to make money…
Pandya: It is an internal matter...
TEHELKA: The Nanavati-Shah Commission can go against Hindus….
Pandya: They run the Commission for years… he wants money, nothing else… He is a Congressman…
TEHELKA: And Shah?
Pandya: Nahi Shah to apnay hain [No, Shah is one of our own]… but Nanavati is a retired Supreme Court judge and Shah is a retired High Court judge…
• • •
Pandya: I have been the government’s special AG [Advocate General] in these riots… I kept note of just two things… I told the VHP that none of you have to come to the Commission ever… you keep in touch with me, that’s all… I told the BJP too to keep in touch with me, that’s all… I have also told the Sangh that whenever I hold camps at various places don’t come there with a big strength and don’t bring a known face. You keep in touch with me on phone… If I’ll need anything, you’ll just receive a call, not more… I also went to all the places where the camps were held. I also held my own camps. I went to the camps to win the local people’s favour… how it should be done, what is to be done.
TEHELKA: It would have created problems otherwise…
Pandya: The style of working is different… I am the one who has created this whole mood of the Commission… that is why all these lectures the Muslims give to their activists… It’s written in many lectures, some have also been recorded by the IB [Intelligence Bureau] that if a Hindu or a Hindu leader gets involved then it is dangerous, but if Arvind Pandya gets involved it is 2,000 times dangerous…
TEHELKA:Has there been any inquiry against you?
Pandya: One was TEHELKA-related... I had threatened the police officer, RB Sreekumar... that leaked out and it ran on TV all day... but that was the last tehelka...
Nov 03, 2007
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‘Police, administration & legislature were in loop’
Friday October 26 2007 09:58 IST
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The Tehelka claimed that the key wings of the administration, the police, administration and legislature were in loop in giving a free hand to the rioters.
Gujarat government's state counsel who appeared in the Nanavati-Shah commission probing into the riots was quoted by the news magazine saying that a section of the judiciary was also compromised.
Gujarat government's counsel Arvind Pandya was quoted as giving details how the cases against the rioters were managed. "Every judge was calling me in his chamber and showing full sympathy for me….the judges were also guiding me as an when required," said special public prosecutor Pandya. He was quoted as saying that Modi had given oral instructions to the police to "be with Hindus."
The magazine claimed that during his meetings with its reporter, Pandya said that had there been a non-BJP government in power in 2002, the riots would never have happened.
"He said that Modi was so upset after the Godhra carnage that he would himself had dropped bombs on Juhapura – a Muslims neighbourhood in Ahmedabad – but his position as chief minister constrained him," claimed the magazine.
Pandya was claimed to have said that the mass killing of Muslims in Gujarat should be celebrated every year as victory day. "He said that crippling Muslims was better than killing them, as that would not only invite lesser punishment but a crippled Muslim would also serve as a living advertisement of what Hindus were capable of. Inflicting economic loss on Muslims was as important as killing them, Pandya asserted," claimed the magazine.
"According to Pandya, it's not just the judiciary in Gujarat that has been complicit in the victimisation and persecution of Muslims. Pandya claimed even the Nanavati-Shah commission has been compromised. He says KG Shah, who heads the commission along with nanavati, is sympathetic to the BJP," said the magazine.
"I told the VHP and the BJP never to come to the commission…you keep in touch with me, that's all," he said on camera.
The magazine also claimed that even a large number of lawyers were also compromised. VHP's general secretary Dilip Trivedi was shown on camera saying that he received full support from the lawyers across the state in defending rioters.
"In only two of the 74 cases in Mehsana was there a conviction. Of them, one has been acquitted," said Trivedi who also echoed that KG Shah in the Nanavati commission supported the Hindus.
Nov 03, 2007
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The myth and truth of Godhra
- Arvind Lavakare, Organiser
Since no ‘secularist’ or ‘liberal’ or ‘objective’
person ever challenged the above sets of figures, some
questions arise: Who killed 200-odd Hindus so early in
those riots? Was it the police or the Hindus
themselves? And what made those 40,000 Hindus rush to
relief camps? Was it fear of Hindu mob violence, rape,
arson and murder?
Two recent ‘news briefs’ in print are critical
evidence of a reality that’s been totally ignored by
our ‘liberals’ who have, for four years running, gone
on and on and on about the ‘genocide’ of Muslims in
Gujarat after the sudden inferno in the S-6
compartment of Sabarmati Express had consumed 58
Hindus, including 26 women and 12 children, returning
home after performing kar seva at Ayodhya.
In its edition of March 19, 2006, The Sunday Express
carried the following report from Ahmedabad:
“Post-Godhra riot case: 7 get lifer
The city sessions court on Friday convicted seven
people in a post-Godhra riot case and sentenced them
to life term for the murder of 35-year-old Mukesh
Panchal, a resident of Lambha. He was attacked by the
accused and went missing on November 7, 2003 from
Shah-e-Alam Darwaza. His mutilated body was found near
Chandoka Lake on November 11. One of the seven
accused—Javed Shaukat Ali—meanwhile managed to give
the cops a slip and fled from the court.”
In its edition of Wednesday, March 29, 2006 The Indian
Express carried the following report, also datelined
Ahmedabad:
“Nine get jail in post-Godhra riot case
The city sessions court on Tuesday convicted nine
accused in a post-Godhra riot case. Additional
Sessions Judge Sonia Gokani sentenced Mushtaq alias
Kanio Ahmed Sheikh to 10 years in jail for murder and
attempt to murder. Eight others were sentenced to 18
months in prison for unlawful assembly, possessing
weapons and rioting.”
Out of the five convictions so far in l’affaire
Godhra, the above two rip the blindfold on Godhra that
the country was subjected to since March 2002. Those
two convictions conclusively prove that even as some
Hindus in Vadodra, Ahmedabad and a few other parts of
Gujarat were provoked into insane killing, arson and
loot by the S-6 carnage, the Muslims in that state
were hardly the cattle hiding from the slaughter house
that they have been made out by the “secularists” in
and outside our national English media. Do you, for
instance, recall reading about the mutilation of
Mukesh Panchal’s cadaver in any of the English print
media? Did you hear a sound byte about it on our TV?
Yes, despite all the media and the consequent
political, propaganda about the ‘genocide’ of
Gujarat’s Muslims, the reality is that some of that
community were also engaged in murder, rioting and
unlawful assembly with arms in hand.
This trend was discernible to the objective person
four years ago itself. Thus, in its issue of April 28,
2002, The Times of India reporter, Sanjay Pandey, told
us that of the 726 people who had been killed by then
in the post-Godhra riots, 168 were Hindus. In its
issue of June 24, 2002, India Today carried an article
saying that the official figure of all people killed
in Gujarat in the three months following the S-6
massacre was 800, of which a quarter were Hindus. The
Union Home Ministry’s Annual Report 2002-03 said that
about a third of the total dead in the Godhra riots
were Hindus. It also said that, at one stage, 40,000
Hindus were in riot relief camps.
Since no ‘secularist’ or ‘liberal’ or ‘objective’
person ever challenged the above sets of figures, some
questions arise: Who killed 200-odd Hindus so early in
those riots? Was it the police or the Hindus
themselves? And what made those 40,000 Hindus rush to
relief camps? Was it fear of Hindu mob violence, rape,
arson and murder?
More proof of the blindfold on Godhra came in 2005,
when the UPA coalition (comprising the ‘secular’
friends of Muslims) made a statement in Parliament
that 254 Hindus and 790 Muslims were killed in those
riots.
But our national media simply refused to remove the
blindfold on Godhra. Hence it was that the elites of
our society continued to rant about the Gujarat
‘pogrom of genocide’; some cussed Indians even
conspired to deny a US visa to the Chief Minister of
one of the country’s fastest developing states.
Aiding and abetting that conspiracy were reports from
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International et al. The
National Human Rights Commission joined in; written
lies by the likes of Arundhati Roy and fake e-mails
added fuel to the fire. All of them went to town about
the Gujarat ‘genocide’ with blinkers on, a blindfold
underneath. None wanted to touch upon the minority
community’s role in that tragedy.
But the latest criminal conviction of 16 Muslims
evokes the recall of the Justice Tewatia Report on the
Godhra issue published on April 26, 2002 under the
aegis of the Council For International Affairs And
Human Rights, based in New Delhi.
It was a report based on a six-day field study of a
team headed by Justice D.S. Tewatia, former Chief
Justice, Calcutta High Court and Punjab and Haryana
High Court. Its other members were Dr J.C. Batra,
senior advocate, Supreme Court, Dr Krishan Singh,
academician, Jawahar Lal Kaul, veteran journalist, and
Prof. B. K. Kuthiala, Dean, Faculty of Media Studies,
G.J. University, Hisar.
The five-man team visited three affected areas and
relief camps in Ahmedabad, interacting freely with the
public and members of both communities, and without
government interference. In Godhra, five delegations
from both communities and also of mixed composition
presented their views and facts to the team.
Similarly, free discussions with the public and
affected communities were held in Vadodra at seven
affected areas and five relief camps. It collected
information from the staff at the Godhra Railway
Station, district administration, including the
Collector and Police Commissioner, passengers
traveling in Sabarmati Express on 27.02.02 in S-6
compartment as well as in other compartments, staff of
the Fire Brigade, Godhra, reports in 22 newspapers and
nine magazines (local, regional and Delhi) and views
on media coverage articulated by some 500 persons
including intellectuals like lawyers, doctors and
businessmen. The site where the train was initially
stopped and stoned was also visited. A high point was
that 13 delegations consisting of 121 citizens met
Justice Tewatia’s team and presented their viewpoints
and information. The delegations ranged from the
Association of Hoteliers to a group of Vanvasis and
affected Muslim as well as Hindu women.
Based on the considerable oral, audio and visual
evidence obtained from the above interactions, the
Justice Tewatia team’s conclusions most relevant to
the blindfold on Godhra were as follows:
Burning of 58 Hindu pilgrims on February 27, 2002 was
an act carried out at the behest of then government of
Pakistan which had planned to burn the entire
Sabarmati Express carrying some 2000 passengers. The
primary objective was to create Hindu-Muslim communal
conflagration in India. The actual perpetrators were
jehadi elements in the predominantly Muslim town of
Godhra where
a very high traffic of telephone calls was recorded
between Godhra and Pakistan, especially Karachi,
before the date of the carnage
an abnormally large number of passports were issued,
there was a large number of persons without ration
cards
a large number of unemployed Muslims had mobile
phones,
though there is no tradition of being a Muslim pilgrim
center and the local Muslims are not affluent, three
istema (religious gatherings) have been held and
attended by large numbers of foreigners, and
an Assistant Collector (a young Muslim from eastern
UP) went on leave two days before the gory incident
and did not return till the middle of March though the
district of his posting was aflame with communal riots
much earlier.
The vacuum pipe between the Coaches No. S-6 and S-7
was cut thereby preventing any further movement of the
train. Miscreants threw bricks and stones at the train
as soon as it left Godhra railway station. The stoning
intensified after it finally stopped about 700 metres
from the station. The passengers of the train,
particularly Coaches S-5, S-6 and S-7, were the main
targets. Burning missiles and acid bulbs were thrown
on and in the coaches. One such acid missile landed in
Coach S-7 and a fire started which the passengers were
able to extinguish. But the attack continued and more
burning missiles were thrown into the Coach S-6.
In an effort to control the subsequent riots, the
Gujarat government
Publicly announced its decision to employ the Army on
the evening of the day riots began on February 28
(Within less than 24 hours at least one brigade of
Indian Army had air-landed at Ahmedabad),
Made preventive arrests of over 33,000 people,
Fired over 12,000 rounds of bullets,
Fired over 15,000 rounds of tear gas shells,
The involvement of Vanvasis in the post-Godhra riots
added a new dimension to the communal violence. In
rural areas the Vanvasis attacked the Muslim
moneylenders, shopkeepers and the forest contractors.
They used their traditional bow and arrows as also
their implements used to cut trees and grass while
attacking Muslims. They moved in groups and used coded
signals for communication. Apparently, the accumulated
anger of years of exploitation by Muslim moneylenders
(interest of 50 per cent per annum), shopkeepers and
forest contractors had become explosive after
moneylenders sexually exploited their womenfolk.
The media selected, distorted and added fiction to
prove their respective points of view. The code of
ethics prescribed by the Press Council of India was
violated by the media with impunity. It so enraged the
citizens that several concerned citizens in the
disturbed areas suggested that peace could return to
the state only if some of the TV channels were closed
for some weeks. Even the Vanvasis complained that the
media had no time to hear their agony and was
spreading canards against the Hindus. Newspapers
published in English from Delhi invariably
editorialised the news. Direct and indirect comments
in the news writing were so telling that the personal
likes and dislikes of the news reporters were too
obvious to be missed. They appeared to have assumed
the role of crusaders against the State Government
from day one. It coloured the entire operation of
newsgathering, feature writing and editorials.
Conclusions 1 to 4 above are indicators as to why our
national media, ever afraid to criticise the Muslim
and ever ready to indulge in BJP/Hindu bashing,
bypassed the Justice Tewatia Report, despite its high
credentials and the fact that it was publicly released
at a press conference in New Delhi. After all, our
‘secular’ national media simply could not have
tolerated giving even a line to report’s conclusion 5
above. Hence, they simply buried the whole report
itself, put a blindfold on the country vision of it.
After all, they had found their Hindu-bashing agenda
in the post-Godhra riots and they were hell-bent in
pushing it full steam, right up to the Supreme Court
and beyond to the United Nations.
Will the criminal conviction of 16 by two separate
sessions judges in Ahmedabad remove the blindfold on
Godhra that the ‘monster media’ put on the people of
this country?
(The writer can be contacted at 202, Dosti Erica,
Antop Hill, Wadala (E), Mumbai 400 037.)
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Sting traps footsoldiers of Gujarat riots boasting about killings with state support
By IE
Friday October 26, 02:05 AM
As Gujarat gears for Assembly elections and Chief Minister Narendra Modi makes it known that he doesn't want to talk about the 2002 riots, a sting operation by Tehelka magazine has claimed to have captured several footsoldiers of the violence who are recorded talking, in graphic detail, of how they executed the killings and how the state machinery stood by them.
The sting, broadcast on Aaj Tak, has 14 main characters: one of them is sitting BJP MLA from Godhra Haresh Bhatt who was national vice-president of Bajrang Dal when the riots happened, one is a public prosecutor and the rest are all VHP or Bajrang Dal leaders or activists. Of these, seven are accused in key riot cases: Babu Bajrangi, Suresh Richard, (Naroda Patiya, 89 killed); Mangilal Jain, Prahlad Raju, Madan Chawal (Gulbarga Society massacre, 39), Rajendra Vyas (Ahmedabad city) and Anil Patel (Sabarkantha).
Bajrangi and Richard are only two of the 64 accused in the Naroda Patiya case who were arrested while Jain, Raju and Chawal are three of the 38 arrested in the Gulbarga massacre.
Bhatt is purportedly caught on tape saying he was present in a meeting in which Modi allegedly gave him three days time "to do whatever they wanted". "After three days, he (Modi) asked to stop and everything came to a halt," Bhatt said, claiming that the Chief Minister thanked them after the Naroda Patiya massacre.
The BJP promptly dismissed it as "dirty tricks" by the "CIA, Congress Investigative Agency."
Congress leaders, wary of raising Hindutva as an issue - in a state that gave Modi a landslide win after the riots - played it down, saying the tapes revealed what they had known all along, how the killings had the blessings of the Modi government and how the police and administration were subverted to that end.
Writing in the magazine, Tehelka reporter Ashish Khetan said he had approached a range of characters linked to the riots posing as an author working on a book to "propagate the VHP brand of Hindutva."
VHP leaders Anil Patel and Dhawal Jayanti Patel are also caught on tape describing details of the riots and its aftermath. In the sting, Dhawal Jayanti Patel claims that VHP activists made bombs in his factory while Bhatt has been shown saying they even made rocket launchers which were used in the riots.
Bajrangi, the self-styled rescuer of Patel girls marrying intercaste, fell out with the VHP and BJP and was expelled from the party last year after complaints that he and his moral police beat up college youths chatting with woman students. A disgruntled Bajrangi went and joined the Shiv Sena.
Consider what these characters said soon after the riots:
• Bhatt claimed immediately after the Sabarmati Express carnage that "killing kar sevaks is a sin and this act will be avenged. Kar sevaks should get justice and I will try my best to see that they do." In July 2002, when asked why the Bajrang Dal was distributing swords and tridents, Bhatt retorted: "Don't you know every action has a reaction? Are we just supposed to sit back and watch?"
When contacted today, he said: "You know how these sting operations work. I was talking of something else and it has been construed and shown as something else. It is a political gimmick of those who are opposing us."
• Bajrangi was arrested in June 2002 and was sent to judicial custody. He is presently out on bail. The trials in Naroda Patiya case and Naroda Gam case have been stayed by Supreme Court. He said: "I dont know who is taking my name and why. I did not lead any mob in Naroda Patiya. The sting operation shows me saying that I took a sword and cut open a woman's womb. But I was trying to explain that the FIR filed against me accuses me of that act and that I deny it."
In the sting, two M S University staffers have been shown detailing how the riots happened: Deepak Shah, an MSU Senate member and Dhimant Bhatt, state government-appointed Senate member as well as the internal auditor of the university.
During the fine arts faculty controversy over Chandramohan's paintings, it was Shah who had offered Rs 1 lakh to anyone who would paint a blasphemous portrait of Prophet Mohammed.
"Narendra bhai saw our enthusiasm"
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Bajrang Dal leader during riots, now with Sena
• It has been written in my FIR. There was this pregnant woman, I slit her open, sisterf****r
• Narendrabhai came to Patiya. He could not make it to the place of the incident because there were commandos-phamandos with him. But he saw our enthusiasm and went away
• Narendrabhai got me out of jail. He kept on changing judges
Haresh Bhatt
Then with Bajrang Dal, now Godhra MLA
• Diesel bombs, pipe bombs, we made them. We ordered two truckloads of swords from Punjab. In Dhariya, we readied everything
Madan Chawal
Accused in Gulbarga Society massacre, on the killing of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri
• Five or six people held him, then someone struck him with a sword. Chopped off his hand, then his legs, chopped off all his organs. After cutting him to pieces, they put him on the wood they'd piled and set it on fire
Dhimant Bhatt
Chief auditor of MS University
• The same day as Godhra there were two meetings, one at Ahmedabad and one at Baroda. Everybody was present, the BJP, RSS, Parishad. It was decided we would not take this any longer. If we have the guts,we should react
Rajendra Vyas
VHP Ahmedabad president
• As CM, Narendrabhai couldn't say kill all the Muslims. I could say it publicly because I was from the VHP
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Sarvajan Hitay Sarvajan Sukhay-For The Gaun of The Many and For The Welfare of The Many
Government sensitive towards the quality of mid-day-meal scheme
Lucknow : October 24, 2007 The U.P. Chief Minister Km. Mayawati has requested the Union Government to change the system of serving meals under the mid-day-heal scheme of the Central Government as the meals at present were being prepared with the use of sub-standard quality of food grains and oils etc. Such meals when served adversely affected the health of the children, she added. She hoped that the Union Government would seriously consider the request of the State Government with immediate effect. Km. Mayawati disclosing the suggestions made by the State Government in press conference held at the 5-Kalidas Marg, said that after making a review of the mid-day-meal scheme, she found that the shape of the scheme was defective and it was essential to bring out a change in the system of the scheme. In a letter addressed and sent to the Prime Minister of India, the Chief Minister has said that in the implementation of the mid-day-meal scheme, the cases of the use of sub-standard food grains and oils have come to light causing sickness to the children and adversely affecting their health. On enquiry, it was revealed that such incidents occurred due to implementing system of the scheme. The Chief Minister said that she has suggested that pre-cooked and frozen food should be served to the children who could be served after heating or permission should be granted for serving fruits etc. In the present system, the food grain was supplied by Food Corporation of India, an agency of the Government of India, while oil was being purchased of local level. Km. Mayawati said that she has also requested in the letter that since the poor quality of oil was causing problems in the mid-day-meal scheme, therefore the Central agencies should also supply packaged quality edible oil instead of its local purchase, so that the children could be provided quality and nutritive food. She said that if Supreme Court’s permission was required in it, then, it should be done at the earliest. The C.M. said that until the Central Government did not accept these suggestions, the State Government has taken some important measures in the interest of the children. She said that the C.D.O. and the BSA have been made responsible for the successful implementation of this scheme at the district level. The purchase of loose oil and ghee has been banned and the State Government has directed the officers to initiate strict action against the culprits.
