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Wednesday,
May 29, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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CDs
on Gujarat violence reach UP
CBI
shielding ex-chief of Union Carbide? BJP confident
of Goa poll win |
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Graphic: Goa polls and other by-elections
Probe Laloo’s
show of wealth: BJP
Boys beat
girls this time VHP, Bajrang leaders held Rs 111 crore for Uttaranchal roads
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CDs on Gujarat violence reach UP Lucknow, May 28 Those who have seen the CDs confided to The Tribune that these are full of spine-chilling details of the killings of people belonging to the minority community. The CDs, titled “Godhra to Gujarat” and “Gujarat burnt alive”, have been sent to different parts of the state. Similar CDs and video cassettes depicting the Gujarat mayhem had created a controversy in Goa just before the state went to the Assembly poll. The government had banned the sale and exhibition of the CDs. The police officials in UP, however, feign ignorance about the existence of such CDs. “We have only heard about it. There is no documentary proof which shows that these CDs have reached UP,” said a senior police official. But those who have seen the CDs say that there are statements of women who narrate how their homes were torched by the mob which burned plastic and rubber tyres are thrown at them. Both of them, who are in a relief camp, give a ghastly detail of how places of worship were damaged and how eight children were burnt alive when the two vehicles they were travelling in, were torched. Then there are pictorial details of damaged houses, slums, places of worship and wailing women and children who had lost their relatives in this communal frenzy. “Godhra to Gujarat” starts with a song which when translated into English means we are ready to fight to save our religion. At some places, the commentator even calls for jehad against those who are inimical to the Islamic cause, said Faiz Ahmad who has seen the CD. The circulation of the CDs is said to be a design to create communal trouble in the state, feels Dr S.P. Pandey, a sociologist with Pt Govind Ballabh Institute of Development Studies. Police officials deny the existence of the CDs, but say it could be the handiwork of activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Recently, the national general secretary of SIMI, Nommin Badra, was arrested in Lucknow for distributing magazines and pamphlets about the Gujarat violence. The police will not spare any person spreading communal hatred in the state, the DGP, Mr
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Israel backs India on
terrorism New Delhi, May 28 Major-Gen Dayan, who was accompanied by Deputy Director-General (Asia Pacific) of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israeli Ambassador to India David Aphek, is understood to have conveyed total Israeli support to India’s stand on cross-border terrorism. The two leaders also discussed other issues of mutual concern, sources said.
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CBI shielding ex-chief of Union Carbide? Bhopal, May 28 An application submitted by an Additional Superintendent of Police of the CBI in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Rameshwar Kothe last week prays for the issuance of a fresh warrant of arrest against Anderson under Sections 304A, 336, 337, 338 of the IPC read with Section 35 of the IPC. The earlier non-bailable warrant against Anderson was issued under Sections 304 (II), 324,326,429 read with Section 35 of the IPC. In a nutshell, the offence will stand diluted with the change of the Sections and punishment reduced from 10 years’ to two years’ imprisonment. In any case, the first warrant issued on April 1,1992 was never served on Anderson. The voluntary organisations working among the gas leak survivors feel that the second warrant, if issued, may also not be executed in view of the dubious attitude of the CBI and the Central Government. These organisations have, however, decided to oppose the CBI request for a change of the penal Sections against Anderson. Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS) convener Abdul Jabbar said today that this was the first occasion in the country’s judicial history when the prosecuting agency itself had asked for diluting the charges against those accused of heinous offences. |
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BJP confident of Goa poll win Panaji, May 28 How many seats does the BJP expect to win, you ask him and pat comes the reply “ a comfortable majority”. On whether he would prefer to sit in the Opposition, he say. “That’s an imaginary question”. Is “resign and come back stronger” a sort of BJP formula? Didn’t Mr Vajpayee do it at the Centre, you ask him and he’s quick to point out the difference. Mr Vajpayee’s case was different, he was not in power, “he says and explains how this was followed by losing the no-trust vote by one vote.” The next time Mr Vajpayee was able to form the government,” he says with the facts on his fingertips. By contrast, he was under compulsion to form a government, so instead of going to the electorate again, “I decided to governance for a time and show our brand of governance.” You may be a metallurgist but you also have a good insight into psychology, you tell him about the way he handled the Miramar beach and Campal old trees issues. “I believe that one must not damage the ecology or heritage,” he said. You dislike defection but you resort to it, you make rules and you break them. How could he give ticket to defectors like Suresh Parulekar, Sheik Hassan and Babush D’Souza, you ask him and he talks about the 1999 elections when the Congress was given a clear mandate, 21 seats, but still failed-miserably. “They split to save themselves from Luzinho Faleiro, it was a circumstance which worked to my advantage,” he went on but he didn’t answer the issue of the defectors. Bring up the issue of Speaker Pratapsing Rane and the Democles sword of disqualification and the link with Viswajit Rane as Chairman of the MTDC and he says that it was Sardinha who appointed him. “I made him cut his expenses from Rs 40 lakh to Rs 4 lakh,” he said. What he didn’t say was that he helped quell a strike in the MTDC by asking for time. When asked why he sacked him after the dissolution of the Assembly he gave a good reason. “How can I keep him after
opposing the BJP?” About the saffronisation of the pre-employment schemes and his defence for taking only five Catholics out of 369 drivers, he disputes the figures, “ 25 per cent of the drivers are Catholic and 80 per cent of the secretaries Catholic. About the seizure of the film “Hey Ram” on the Gujarat
Carnage, he puts the blame on the Election Commission. He also defends the RSS recruitment in the police. “You show me a single case that is not eligible for recruitment. I don’t see them as RSS, I see them as Goans,” he says deftly. |
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Probe Laloo’s show
of wealth: BJP Patna, May 28 In the meantime, the Telco regional office has closed its Patna office after lodging a formal complaint regarding the event. Mr Modi maintained that 15 vehicles had not yet been returned. Addressing a press conference , he said the brothers-in-law of Laloo Yadav, Subhash Yadav and his supporters beat up and terrorised car dealers and took away 45 cars. Mr Modi regretted that despite a written complaint by Telco Company the SSP had still not lodged an FIR. He added that around 100 new sofas were forcibly picked up from traders and most of them had been returned in bad shapes, rending them unfit for sale. The cars too were unfit for sale as customers cancelled the bookings after media reports of their use in the marriage, he added. |
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Boys beat girls this time New Delhi, May 28 There has been an increase of 2.93 per cent in the overall pass percentage, this year the number has risen to 69.53 per cent compared to last year’s 66.60 per cent. While the Ajmer region has topped the list of the pass percentage with 87.26, Chandigarh managed a 79.49 per cent, Delhi 54.90 per cent, Chennai 85.33, Allahabad 78.61 per cent while Guwahati recorded the lowest at 47.85 per cent. The pass percentage of regular students is 75.20 per cent as against the low of 32.27 per cent recorded by private candidates. |
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VHP, Bajrang leaders held
Ahmedabad, May 28 Those arrested were the Naroda Patiya area Bajrang Dal leaders Babu Bajrangi and Kishan Torani and VHP leader Parminder Singh
Rajput, the police said. The total arrests in connection with the incident rose to 23, the police added. The Naroda Patia massacre FIR had also mentioned names of a local BJP MLA Mayaben Kodnani and Gujarat VHP General Secretary Jaideep Patel, among others, for their alleged involvement in the incident. Nine persons were recently arrested in connection with another ghastly incident at Gulbarg Society in which 40 persons, including former Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri were burnt to death.
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Rs 111 crore for Uttaranchal roads Dehra Dun, May 28 Addressing a press conference at the Vidhan Sabha complex yesterday evening, she said plans to provide a road network in Uttaranchal was on the anvil. Funds to the tune of Rs 111 crore were presently available with the government for the construction of roads under the Prime Minister’s Road Scheme. Road construction work would be undertaken in Pauri (Garhwal) and Pithoragarh (Kumaon) districts, she said. The minister said the government planned to provide roads to connect the remotest of villages in the current financial year, but would require Rs 5,000 crore more, adding that the government was resolved to mobilise funds from various agencies. |
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