Zakia Jafri deserves accolades for her grit and determination to get justice for her slain husband. On April 24, a magistrate in Ahmedabad will begin daily hearings on a petition filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of the slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit that the Special Investigation Team gave Narendra Modi’s for his alleged role in the Godhra and post-Godhra violence in … Continue reading Mother Courage – Dilip Padgaonkar
If Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is elected prime minister after the next general election, it would most certainly embolden right-wing militancy. This is a forecast from Tom Sanderson, co-director and senior fellow at the Transnational Threats Project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a leading Washington, DC think- tank Sanderson made this prediction in a CSIS report titled Trends in Militancy across … Continue reading Modi Forecast – Zuber Patel
A lot of the myths around Modi and his economic prowess are based on half truths and gross exaggerations. Modi’s hyped Vibrant Gujarat shows, for instance, convey the impression that Gujarat leads other states in attracting foreign investment. But the truth is that Gujarat has received only 5 per cent of foreign investments in India in the last 12 years. Maharashtra and the National Capital … Continue reading Gandalf And His Flo Chart
Gujarat Chief Minister Modi has started changing laws that go against him. In last state assembly session he introduced three bills to change the prevailing legal provisions that were inconvenient to him, says Vidyut Joshi. They say that an autocrat changes the law if it does not suit his political goals. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has started doing the same by changing laws that … Continue reading How Narendra Modi rules by changing the laws
The train made an unscheduled stop. “Godhra!”, someone whispered. I got down to look around Search for signs And soak it all in But I did not find anything Except the darkness of the night Beyond the station lights. The odd tea vendor passed by Trying to sell his lukewarm tea To those who were awake Or walking around aimlessly. It was just another ordinary … Continue reading Godhra – Parvez Imam
By diluting the process of a lokayukta’s appointment, the Narendra Modi government has set a bad example Keeping in mind that the position of Gujarat’s lokayukta had been vacant for seven years, the state’s governor, Kamla Beniwal, had appointed retired high court judge RA Mehta to the post in August 2011. Feeling slighted that its council of ministers was bypassed in this process of appointment, … Continue reading Don’t follow this lead
State tweaked rules to grant land to Ford and L&T, says report The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India has come down heavily on the Gujarat government and State public sector undertakings for causing a loss of nearly Rs. 580 crore to the exchequer by bestowing “undue” favours on large corporate entities. Major industrial houses to which the Narendra Modi government played benefactor included Reliance Industries … Continue reading Rs. 580-cr. loss as Modi govt. favoured corporates: CAG
Riots under BJP rule are the culmination of the Sangh Parivar’s ideological impulse to keep communal tensions alive while for Congress they are tactical instruments Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh’s decision to accord a prominent role to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is presumably based on the belief that the diverse Indian electorate would forgive him for the communal mayhem of 2002, as … Continue reading Why memories of Gujarat 2002 stay? – Ajaz Ashraf
27 March, 2013 Countercurrents.org Narendra Modi of the RSS is an ambitious man who seems to want to become the prime minister of the country. His propaganda machine never speaks of the violence in 2002 in the state he ruled and rules, but it constantly plugs his hand in its development. I do not propose here to question the claims of development that he makes … Continue reading No Humans In Modi’s “Development” – Mukul Dube
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP), which is headed by Narendra Modi’s bete noire Keshubhai Patel, has demanded a fresh CBI investigation into the murder of Gujarat’s former home minister Haren Pandya. Patel said that the real killers are still to be booked. This breakaway faction of BJP pressed for this demand at a meeting held at Nehrunagar crossroads to commemorate the 10th death anniversary … Continue reading Nab Pandya’s real killers: Keshubhai Patel
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