RE: [IAC#RG] Forget Gujarat: Look at the Congress Record: It is Shocking

Dear Mr. Deepak Malhotra

Greetings!

 

I think it is better to push for Anti Communal riots bill sooner than later. This will help at least book some of the top brass politicians, administrative officers who are either responsible or fail to control targeted violence being within their power. I am not a congress fan but it is understandable that in all the riot incidences mentioned below though Congress was in power but the players who have architected such mayhems are not Congress goons all the time. Remember BJP is the party which captured power in the centre following nation-wide chaos and the Shiv Sena came in to power in Maharashtra only after 92/93 Mumbai riots and 93 Mumbai bomb blast. Mr. Modi is retaining power in Gujarat not on development rather it is on well crafted communal polarization of Hindus and Muslims.

So here no major political party is 'holier than thou'. It is like 'whosoever goes to Lanka becomes a Ravon'. Best way to control some of these crime would be to punish them within the law and bar them off the services be political or administrative.

 

Thanks

MB Qasmi       

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Communal Violence Bill Now Gets Top UPA Billing

Home ministry submits BJP-criticised draft for legal vetting in an attempt to introduce it in Parliament and get it passed in the tenure of UPA-2

AMAN SHARMA NEW DELHI

The Home Ministry has decided to push ahead the controversial Communal Violence Bill which aims to check targeted violence against the minorities. The Ministry has submitted their draft of the bill to the Law Ministry for legal vetting.
A government source said there is an urgency now to bring the bill for Cabinet approval and introduce it in Parliament soon in an effort to get it passed in the tenure of UPA-2. This is especially because a draft of the proposed legislation was drawn up by the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) way back on July 25, 2011 and submitted for the Home Ministry's consideration. The Home Ministry has finally completed its deliberations on the proposed legislation and has submitted their draft bill to the Law Ministry. A source said the Ministry draft "largely sticks" to the provisions in the 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011' prepared by the NAC. The BJP is dead against the said draft as it aims to protect only the religious or linguistic minorities from violence by a majority group. BJP in the past has in fact called it a "dangerous bill", saying it will harm federal structure of the Constitution and questioned how the bill could presume that the majority community is always responsible for riots. This bill also has a long history of being derailed due to political opposition. The Bill was first introduced in Rajya Sabha in 2005 and subsequently referred to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. The Committee submitted its report in 2006 to the Parliament and notices were given in March, 2007, December 2008, February 2009, December 2009 and again in February 2010 in the Rajya Sabha for consideration and passing of the Bill. However, the Bill could not be taken up for consideration on any of these occasions. Thereafter, several suggestions from civil society groups were received and examined. Finally, the NAC said in July 2010 that there was a need to revise the law to deal with communal violence, worked on a draft bill and submitted the same on July 25, 2011 to the Ministry. The draft bill imposed duties on the Central Government and the State Governments and their officers to exercise their powers in an impartial and non-discriminatory manner to prevent and control targeted violence, including mass violence, against religious or linguistic minorities, SCs and STs. The NAC draft also proposed the Central Government to constitute a body known as the National Authority for Communal Harmony, Justice and Reparation to exercise the powers and perform the functions assigned to it under this Act and investigate incidents of communal violence in the country.

 

 

From: indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net [mailto:indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of Deepak Malhotra
Sent: 06 April 2013 11:17
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Subject: [IAC#RG] Fw: Forget Gujarat: Look at the Congress Record: It is Shocking

 

 

 

 

 Forget Gujarat: Look at the Congress Record

 

Let us set the record straight once and for all. Those Secularists who call Narendra Modi a murderer can judge for themselves from the Table below.

• Nowhere in the world has one party (Indian National Congress) presided over the murder of so many citizens.
• No Congress Minister / Politician has ever been booked. Only promoted.
• Do you want to hand over this Country to them again?  
• Please think ? 

List of MAJOR Riots / Incidents since 1947

(More than 50 dead)

Year	State(s)	Place	Numbers Massacred / Killed (Approx.)	Community Affected	Assailants	Party in Power	Prime Minister / Chief Minister
1947	Mainly Punjab / Bengal	Various	Min 5,00,000 (worst riots in human history)	Hindus / Muslims / Sikhs	Hindus / Muslims / Sikhs	Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru (PM)
1964	Bihar	Jamshedpur	2000	Hindus /Muslims	Hindus / Muslims	Congress	KB Sahay (CM)
1967	Bihar	Ranchi	177	Muslims	Hindus	Jana Kranti Dal	MP Sinha (CM)
1969	Gujarat	Ahmedabad	2000	Muslims	Hindus	Congress	Hitendra Desai (CM)
1970	Maharashtra	Bhiwandi	164	Muslims	Hindus	Congress	Vasantrao Naik (CM)
1979	Bihar	Jamshedpur	108	Hindus / Muslims	Hindus / Muslims	Janata Party	Karpuri Thakur
1980	UP	Moradabad	200	Muslims	-	Congress	VP Singh (CM)
1983	Assam	Nellie	2200 (official) 5000 (unofficial)	Muslims	Report Classified	Congress	Hiteshwar Saikia (CM)
1984	Delhi / Haryana	Delhi	4000	Sikhs	Congress Party Members	Congress	Rajiv Gandhi (PM) Bhajan Lal (CM Haryana)
1985	Gujarat	Ahmedabad	275	Muslims	Hindus	Congress	Madhav Sinh Solanki (CM)
1987	UP	Meerut	50	Muslims	PAC	Congress	Vir Bahadur Singh (CM)
1989	Bihar	Bhagalpur	1150	Muslims	Hindus	Congress	Bhagwat Jha Azad
1987 – to date	Jammu & Kashmir	Various	Over 60,000. 4,50,000 displaced (ethnic cleansing)	Hindus / Muslims / Troops	Islamic Terrorists	National Conference / Presidents Rule / PDP / Congress / Presidents Rule / National Conference	Farook Abdullah (CM) / Narasimha Rao (PM) / MM Sayeed / Ghulam Nabi Azad / Man Mohan Singh (PM) / Omar Abdullah (CM)
1990	UP	Aligarh	150	Muslims	Hindus	Janata Dal	Mulayam Singh Yadav (CM)
1990	Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	300	Hindus	Muslims	Congress	Chenna Reddy (CM)
1992	Gujarat	Surat	152	Hindus / Muslims	Hindus / Muslims	Congress + Allies	Chimman Bhai Patel (CM)
1992	UP	Kanpur	254	Hindus / Muslims	Hindus / Muslims	Presidents Rule (Congress)	Narasimha Rao (PM)
1992 / 1993	Maharashtra	Mumbai	900	Hindus / Muslims	Hindus / Muslims	Congress	Sudhakarrao Naik (CM)
1993	Maharashtra	Mumbai	250	All Communities	Islamic Terrorists	Congress	Sharad Pawar (CM)
2002	Gujarat	Godhra / Various	1200	Hindus / Muslims	Hindus / Muslims	BJP	Narendra Modi (CM)
2008	Maharashtra	Mumbai	164	All Communities	Islamic Terrorists	Congress	Vilasrao Deshmukh (CM)
2012	Assam	Kokrajhar	77	Muslims (from BD)	Bodos	Congress	Tarun Gogoi (CM)