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 Six Christians tonsured in Orissa | | 2004-02-15 | NDTV Correspondent
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| Acid attack on dalit family in Bihar | | 2004-02-15 | NDTV Correspondent | NDTV | | The hospital in Bihar's Madhubani district has been treating the victims of a horrific attack for the past four days.
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| Two Dalit boys beaten to death | | 2003-12-25 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Two teenage Dalit boys were allegedly beaten to death by a village Pradhan in the Harora assembly constituency of Saharanpur district. The area is said to be tense after the incident. | | | |
| This Dalit sarpanch is not allowed to cultivate her own land | | 2003-12-23 | Hiral Dave | The Indian Express | | Kamrej, December 22: THE immediate provocation for Jethabhai Maru, husband of Dalit sarpanch Gangaben in Kamrej taluka, taking such an extreme step as suicide on December 15 may have been the threats that followed Gangaben’s refusal to part with a cut from the gram panchayat grant but the Marus’ story of upper caste harassment goes back a long way. | | | |
| Wife was honest sarpanch so Dalit paid with his life | | 2003-12-18 | HIRAL DAVE | The Indian Express | | KAMREJ, DECEMBER 18: For the second time in a week, Gujarat is in the news for atrocities on Dalits.
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| These kids told: you are Dalit, go eat elsewhere | | 2003-12-15 | JANYALA SREENIVAS | The Indian Express | | CHOTILA, DECEMBER 15: At least seven Dalit teachers have been transferred in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district for objecting to segregation of upper- and lower-caste students during mid-day meals in some schools.
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| VHP, Muslims reject BJP's Ayodhya formula | | 2003-05-29 | Indo-Asian News Service | Hindustan Times | | The Bharatiya Janata Party's proposal to build a temple in Ayodhya and have a mosque erected alongside has proved a non-starter with its Hindu affiliates and Muslims rejecting it. | | | |
| VHP members ransack press meet of Buddhist organisation | | 2003-05-29 | Press Trust of India | Hindustan Times | | Some persons claiming to be VHP activists disrupted a press meet organised by Vishwa Boudh Sangh (VBS) in Vadodara city yesterday and ransacked the place, terming the activities of the organisation as "anti-Hindu", police said Ahmedabad on Sunday | | | |
| Tension in Hardoi over construction of mosque | | 2003-05-22 | Press Trust of India | Hindustan Times | | Tension prevailed in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district following a dispute over construction of a mosque in the collectorate compound, police sources said on Wednesday. | | | |
| Post-Godhra riots were not one-sided: Nanavati | | 2003-05-20 | HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times | | Justice G.T. Nanavati, who heads the enquiry commission into the Gujarat riots, has said there is little evidence against any individual VHP or Bajrang Dal leader indicating their involvement in the communal violence that rocked the state last year | | | |
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| Christians must join larger fight | | 2003-05-20 | Lancy Lobo | India Express | | factions within the BJP, others. The treasury is empty and the RBI has warned the state government against any more overdrafts. But Modi is unruffled. And why not? Modi has not come to power on developmental issues such as water, electricity, roads, employment, education, health, but by stirring up anti-minority sentiment. Hence, Modi’s government can get by with offering tokenistic measures to his constituency. One such measure is the Anti-Conversion Bill which targets Christians who comprise 0.42 per cent of the total population of the state. | | | |
| Clean chit for Modi govt in Gujarat riots | | 2003-05-20 | Rajdeep Sardesai | NDTV Newa | | A few days after he reportedly gave a clean chit to the state administration, the judge inquiring into the Gujarat violence told NDTV today that there is no evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi. | | | |
| Kalam meets Graham Staines' widow | | 2003-05-15 | PTI | The Times Of India | | President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday met Gladys Staines, widow of slain Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines here | | | |
| Violence rocks Kheda on Id | | 2003-05-15 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | At least six people were injured and about 15 shops set ablaze in Kheda district on Thursday afternoon during an Id-e-Milad procession in Sandhana village in the district | | | |
| US panel on religious freedom again targets India | | 2003-05-14 | S Rajagopalan | Hindustan Times | | The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has once again recommended that India, Pakistan and four other nations be listed as "countries of particular concern" for allegedly violating religious freedom. | | | |
| File FIR against Togadia: Citizens' groups | | 2003-05-13 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | A group of citizens' organisations on Tuesday asked the Dadar police to file a First Information Report against VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia for his allegedly inflammatory remarks at a meeting in Dadar last month. | | | |
| One killed, seven injured in communal clashes in Bhavnagar | | 2003-05-12 | Press Trust of India | Hindustan Times | | One person was killed and seven others - policemen and journalists - were injured when a minor road accident snowballed into a communal clash in the coastal city of Bhavnagar, about 200 kms from Ahmedabad on Saturday, police said. | | | |
| VHP cadre in Gujarat to get training in firearms | | 2003-05-09 | Rathin Das | Hindustan Times | | After trishul diksha, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) now wants to upgrade. It plans to impart training in firearms to Sangh Parivar activists in Gujarat. | | | |
| HC upholds POTA court order on Maulana Umarji | | 2003-05-09 | Express News Service | India Express | | GUJARAT High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal from the prime accused in the Godhra carnage case challenging the anti-terrorism court’s order remanding him again in police custody | | | |
| VHP cadre in Gujarat to get arms training | | 2003-05-08 | Rathin Das | Hindustan Times | | After trishul diksha, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) now wants to upgrade. It plans to impart training in firearms to Sangh Parivar activists in Gujarat. | | | |
| Court verdict on trishul embarrasses Rajasthan Govt | | 2003-05-08 | DK Singh & Ayodhya Gaur | Hindustan Times | | The questions raised by a local court in Rajasthan about trishuls as weapons, have taken the wind out of the Rajasthan government's much-hyped campaign against the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's trishul deeksha programme | | | |
| Trident is not a weapon: Court | | 2003-05-08 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Observing that tridents cannot be considered as arms, a Jodhpur court granted anticipatory bail to five VHP activists accused of displaying trishuls, banned in Rajasthan under the Arms Act. | | | |
| Communalisation of Education | | 2003-05-07 | MRIDULA MUKHERJEE, ADITYA MUKHERJEE | Outlook India | | The current controversy over the nature of history textbooks to be prescribed in schools reflects two completely divergent views of the Indian nation. One of the most important achievements of the Indian national movement, perhaps the greatest mass movement in world history, was the creation of the vision of an open, democratic, secular and civil libertarian state which was to promote a modern scientific outlook in civil society in independent India. The authors of the NCERT textbooks who are now under attack share this vision of the Indian nation. Over the last fifty years after independence a valiant effort was made by the Indian people to translate this vision into a reality in India. It is this great effort which is now being threatened by communal forces, which had little to do with the national movement and, in fact, through their loyalist policies, ended up weakening it. These communal forces are now attempting to use history textbooks as instruments to further their vision of a narrow, sectarian and 'Talibanised' Hindu nation. | | | |
| Tope after trishul | | 2003-05-07 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | Finally, there’s competition for VHP leader Pravin Togadia and RJD chief Laloo Yadav. Satirist Jaspal Bhatti is here to distribute tope (cannon). At a Tope rally against corruption at the Press Club of India on Tuesday, Bhatti distributed models of cannons among his supporters | | | |
| Falling for it, hook, trishul and sinker | | 2003-05-06 | EDITORIAL | Hindustan Times | | National Commission for Minorities Chairman Tarlochan Singh must be extremely naive. After meeting VHP leaders — following complaints from minority commissions and members of the Muslim community against the organisation’s trishul diksha programme in Rajasthan — Mr Singh is cocksure that they will refrain from any activities or remarks that may hurt the sentiments of any minority community | | | |
| Arrest Togadia under POTA, demand MPs in both Houses | | 2003-05-05 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | The distribution of tridents by VHP in the capital on Sunday had its echo in both Houses of Parliament on Monday with Opposition Congress and Samajwadi Party members accusing VHP leader Pravin Togadia of disrupting communal harmony and demanding his arrest under POTA. | | | |
| Dara Singh acquitted in looting case | | 2003-05-05 | PTI | Rediff News | | Dara Singh, the prime accused in the sensational murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two children, was on Monday acquitted in a separate case of looting at a weekly market in Baripada (in Orissa) in 1998. | | | |
| Arrest Togadia under POTA, demand MPs in both Houses | | 2003-05-05 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | The distribution of tridents by VHP in the capital on Sunday had its echo in both Houses of Parliament on Monday with Opposition Congress and Samajwadi Party members accusing VHP leader Pravin Togadia of disrupting communal harmony and demanding his arrest under POTA. | | | |
| Dara Singh acquitted in looting case | | 2003-05-05 | PTI | Rediff News | | Dara Singh, the prime accused in the sensational murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two children, was on Monday acquitted in a separate case of looting at a weekly market in Baripada (in Orissa) in 1998. | | | |
| Togadia distributes tridents at Delhi rally | | 2003-05-05 | ANI | The Times Of India | | VHP leader Praveen Togadia distributed tridents at a public rally in the capital on Sunday. The distribution comes weeks after he was booked for anti-state activities in Rajasthan on defying a local ban on a similar ceremony | | | |
| Togadia distributes tridents at Delhi rally | | 2003-05-05 | ANI | The Times Of India | | VHP leader Praveen Togadia distributed tridents at a public rally in the capital on Sunday. The distribution comes weeks after he was booked for anti-state activities in Rajasthan on defying a local ban on a similar ceremony | | | |
| The new McCarthyism | | 2003-05-01 | Praful Bidwai | Hindustan Times | | The chickens are coming home to roost. The barrage of campaigns unleashed over the years by the Sangh parivar — against pluralism, secularism and humanism, and for Hindu-supremacism, hyper-nationalism and extremist intolerance — is reaching fruition in a variety of forms and institutions. Thus, unadulterated hate-speech directed at the religious-ethnic minorities has become routine within our public discourse. Vile attacks by chosen pro-Hindutva audiences on secularists and liberals are part of the gladiatorial entertainment fare regularly dished out by television channels. | | | |
| Congress rally in Gujarat lacks punch | | 2003-05-01 | Binita Parikh | Rediff News | | The Gujarat Congress failed to raise any new point or issue at the Gujarat Bachao (Save Gujarat) rally organized in Gandhinagar on Thursday to coincide with the Gujarat Day celebrations | | | |
| Trishul plan to help attain Hindu Rashtra: Togadia | | 2003-04-29 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Unfazed by his recent arrest in Rajasthan over the trident issue, firebrand VHP leader Praveen Togadia on Wednesday said the "trishul deeksha" will be used as an instrument to achieve the outfit's goal of Hindu Rashtra. | | | |
| RSS summer camps from May 11 | | 2003-04-24 | ANIL PATHAK | The Times Of India | | A host of national leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including their chief K Sudarshan and sah prachar pramukh Adhiskumar, are likely to address summer camps to be held at Surat, Porbander and Jagana where around 900 shakha pramukhs will take part in the reorientation exercises from May 11. | | | |
| BJP betrayed Hindus, says Ashok Singhal | | 2003-04-24 | PTI | Hindustan times | | VHP working president Ashok Singhal on Thursday said BJP had "betrayed" the Hindus on the issue of Ram temple construction after they assumed power | | | |
| Trishul plan to help attain Hindu Rashtra: Togadia | | 2003-04-24 | PTI | Hindustan times | | Unfazed by his recent arrest in Rajasthan over the trident issue, firebrand VHP leader Praveen Togadia on Wednesday said the "trishul deeksha" will be used as an instrument to achieve the outfit's goal of Hindu Rashtra | | | |
| Lethal weapons | | 2003-04-24 | Vishal Arora | Hindustan times | | Distribution of trishuls that are six to eight inches long and sharp enough to kill is now rightly banned as per the notification issued by the Rajasthan government under Section 4 of the Arms Act, 1959. | | | |
| The lassi louts | | 2003-04-24 | Indrajit Hazra | Hindustan times | | It’s only by a quirk of fate — and a wink of history — that Praveenbhai Togadia isn’t Comrade Praveen Togadia. Instead of doling out fiery speeches against Muslims and liberals and extolling Hindus to shake off their ‘second-class citizenship’, he could easily have been doling out fiery speeches against the bourgeoisie and liberals and extolling workers to shake off the fetters put on them by their class enemies. | | | |
| Distribution of tridents to continue: Togadia | | 2003-04-22 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Striking a defiant posture soon after his release on bail from the Central Jail here on Tuesday, VHP leader Praveen Togadia said distribution of tridents across the country would continue. | | | |
| Give up claim on Ayodhya: BJP to Muslims | | 2003-04-22 | PTI | The Times Of India | | In a significant development, UP BJP President Vinay Katiyar on Tuesday appealed to the Muslims to give up their claim on the disputed site in Ayodhya claiming that "archaeological evidence supporting the existence of a has been temple" found during the ongoing excavations and assured them that it would close forever the chapter of disputes. | | | |
| Trishul diksha to continue in Gujarat: VHP | | 2003-04-22 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The Gujarat unit of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal have decided to continue their programmes here despite the controversy over the trishul diksha and the recent arrest and release of it international general secretary Pravin Togadia | | | |
| VHP’s ‘trishul’ worried Advani too, says Gehlot | | 2003-04-21 | Manini Chatterjee | Indian Express | | Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today claimed in an interview with The Indian Express that Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister L K Advani had himself told a meeting of Director Generals of Police a year ago that the so-called ‘‘trishuls’’ being distributed by the VHP in the country were sharp and dangerous weapons. | | | |
| Stabbing at communal harmony | | 2003-04-18 | Editorial | Hindustan Times | | Is Rajasthan the next communal flashpoint after Gujarat? In the recent past, several places in Rajasthan have witnessed ugly scenes which stopped short of riots mainly due to a watchful administration | | | |
| ‘Saffron tide is rising...Govt making inroads for fascism’ | | 2003-04-16 | KHUSHWANT SINGH | Hindustan times | | In his latest book, The End of India, Khushwant Singh warns about the lethal combination of religion and politics. ‘‘These are dark times for India — fascism has well and truly crossed our thresholds and dug its heels in our courtyard,’’ he says. The writer spoke to Humra Quraishi on why he feels that way. Excerpts from the interview | | | |
| Togadia remanded to judicial custody | | 2003-04-14 | PTI | The Times Of India | | VHP leader Praveen Togadia was on Monday sent to judicial custody for two days in connection with alleged violation of prohibitory orders and ban on distribution of tridents on Sunday after a local court rejected his bail application. | | | |
| VHP calls for Rajasthan bandh on Tuesday | | 2003-04-14 | PTI | The Times Of India | | The VHP on Monday gave a call for Rajasthan bandh on Tuesday to protest the arrest of its international general secretary Praveen Togadia after a trident distribution ceremony in Ajmer | | | |
| Bhojshala shrine controversy continues to simmer in MP | | 2003-04-14 | Indo-Asian News Service | Hindustan times | | A directive by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) allowing both Hindus and Muslims weekly access for prayers in the disputed Bhojshala shrine in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, has failed to put a lid on the simmering controversy. | | | |
| Police harassing Muslims after Pandya's murder | | 2003-04-14 | Sukrat Desai | Hindustan times | | Muslims here say the police are harassing them over the assassination of Haren Pandya even as the father of the slain former minister reiterated his allegation that the killing was politically motivated. | | | |
| Five detained for killing Haren Pandya | | 2003-04-14 | PTI | Hindustan times | | Five persons have been detained in connection with the assassination of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in Ahmedabad last month and investigations are underway to establish if they had any links with the murder. | | | |
| Sangh Parivar, BJP flay Togadia's arrest | | 2003-04-14 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Enraged by the arrest of its firebrand leader Praveen Togadia, the VHP on Monday declared it would actively work against the Congress in the coming Rajasthan Assembly polls even as the BJP said that the state government would have to "bear the consequences" for the ban on tridents and the Sangh Parivar leader's incarceration. | | | |
| Minority community objects to 'random arrests' in Pandya case | | 2003-04-11 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The minority community has objected to “random arrests” of their members by various investigating agencies in recent weeks and made a representation before DG K Chakravarthi and Ahmedabad city commissioner K R Kaushik on Thursday. They were protesting against the detention of certain people in connection with the Haren Pandya murder case. | | | |
| Muslim leaders to move court over ASI's Bhojshala directive | | 2003-04-11 | Ranjan | Hindustan Times | | Feeling embarrassed and cornered after Archaeological Survey of India's recent order for not only opening Bhojshala for Hindus but also allowing them to carry flowers and rice inside the shrine on Tuesdays, the Muslim community leaders in Malwa region have stepped up their parleys and consultations with lawyers to move court in the next few days. | | | |
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| VHP to set up dist level legal cells | | 2003-04-07 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday here announced to set up legal guidance cells in all the districts of the state to create legal awareness and for providing free legal aid to weaker sections of the society. | | | |
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| VHP to set up dist level legal cells | | 2003-04-07 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday here announced to set up legal guidance cells in all the districts of the state to create legal awareness and for providing free legal aid to weaker sections of the society. | | | |
| Centre steps in to solve Bhojshala imbroglio | | 2003-04-07 | NILANJANA BHADURI JHA | The Times Of India | | The Centre stepped in on Monday to solve the Bhojshala imbroglio, allowing Hindu devotees to offer prayers from dawn to dusk on Tuesdays and Muslims on Fridays | | | |
| Centre steps in to solve Bhojshala imbroglio | | 2003-04-07 | NILANJANA BHADURI JHA | The Times Of India | | The Centre stepped in on Monday to solve the Bhojshala imbroglio, allowing Hindu devotees to offer prayers from dawn to dusk on Tuesdays and Muslims on Fridays | | | |
| Don’t like co-passenger? Push him off the train! | | 2003-04-03 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | When trains carrying VHP and Bajrang Dal workers chugged out of the Ahmedabad railway station last week, for the show of strength the Capital, few knew that some of the incidents on board would bear an uncanny resemblance to what happened on February 27, 2002 at Godhra. | | | |
| No moles among Muslims, can’t report on Hindutva | | 2003-04-03 | HARIT MEHTA | The Times Of India | | Gujarat Police’s intelligence department is facing a strange predicament. It cannot report to the government on the information it has and does not know how to get information which the government wants | | | |
| US attacks India for treatment of Muslims, Christians | | 2003-04-02 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The US State Department Human rights report for the year 2002 has said that the "worst religious violence" in India in 2002 was directed against Muslims in Gujarat | | | |
| We can repeat Dec 6 if temple not built at Ayodhya: Togadia | | 2003-04-02 | Press Trust of India | India Express | | Adopting a tough posture, the VHP on Wednesday said the Supreme Court's recent decision disallowing prayers at Ayodhya had closed its option of seeking a solution through judiciary and warned December 6, 1992 would be repeated if Parliament does not enact a law to hand over land to Hindus for temple construction. | | | |
| US questions India's ability to prevent violence | | 2003-04-01 | PTI | the Times Of India | | The US has said the Indian government "generally respected" human rights of its citizens but "numerous problems" remained, particularly in Kashmir and the Northeast, even as it questioned New Delhi's ability to prevent sectarian and religious violence in the country. | | | |
| Bearing the cross of Gujarat | | 2003-03-31 | Dominic Emmanuel | Indian Express | | There was more to the clandestine survey of Christians in Gujarat (carried out for the second time in three years) than just its stated objective that ‘‘the Gujarat government is preparing to introduce the anti-conversion bill’’. After all, the the anti-conversion bill was already on the BJP election manifesto and the Tamil Nadu anti-conversion law was fully backed by the BJP. | | | |
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| Bhojshala: The making of communal trouble | | 2003-03-25 | VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM | The Times Of India | | Chief Minister Digvijay Singh swears he will not ask for votes in the name of religion. "But yes, if they raise it, I will counter it," he says. Chief-ministerial aspirant Uma Bharati insists she will not raise Hindutva or Bhojshala in the coming elections. "But yes, if Digvijay is honest about not making the Bhojshala an election issue, let him prove it by opening its doors to Hindus," she says | | | |
| Dara denies hand in killing of Graham Staines | | 2003-03-25 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Dara Singh, the prime accused in the sensational murder of Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two minor sons, on Monday denied that he had mastermined or executed the killings. | | | |
| Gujarat High Court notifies Govt on Christian survey | | 2003-03-25 | PTI | Hindustan times | | Gujarat High Court today granted seven days to the state government to file replies to the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by All India Christian Council, demanding a stay on the alleged discreet surveys of the Christian community. | | | |
| Gujarat Cong accuses VHP of "intimidating Dalits" | | 2003-03-25 | PTI | Hindustan times | | The Gujarat unit of Congress has alleged that VHP had written "cheap and intimidating" letters to the Dalit society and threatened to take a legal course if the Hindu outfit did not make any public clarifications about it. | | | |
| Gujarat Cong accuses VHP of 'letter to Dalits' | | 2003-03-24 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | The Gujarat unit of Congress has alleged that VHP had written "cheap and intimidating" letters to the Dalit society and threatened to take a legal course if the Hindu outfit did not make any public clarifications about it. | | | |
| Togadia calls for closure of 'Dar-ul-Ulum' | | 2003-03-24 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia on Saturday advocated a ban on the famous Islamic educational institution 'Dar-ul-Ulum' at Deoband dubbing it as "the source of terrorism in the country." | | | |
| VHP to launch satyagrah: Togadia | | 2003-03-24 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Even if the report of excavation, being underway in Ayodhya, suggests existence of a temple at the site prior to the demolition of the structure, the Central government will not hand over the Ram Janambhoomi to the Hindus | | | |
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| Togadia to impart trishul diksha in UP | | 2003-03-21 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international general secretary Pravin Togadia would visit Uttar Pradesh from Saturday to give trishul diksha to VHP workers in different parts of the state. | | | |
| Periyar and Dalit failures | | 2003-03-20 | T.N. Gopalan | Indian Express | | E. V. Ramasamy Naicker or ‘Periyar’ is to the Dravidian parties what Gandhi is to the Congress, essentially an icon who demands ritual homage. To call for a re-examination of his life and works, as Ravikumar has done in his article on Periyar’s legacy (NIE, March 12) is an exercise in futility. | | | |
| Paswan to bring privilege motion against Gujarat minister | | 2003-03-19 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan will bring a privilege motion against the Gujarat home minister for apparently ascribing the survey of Christians in the state to a question he had asked in Parliament | | | |
| VHP now claims Jama Masjid | | 2003-03-19 | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT | The Telegraph | | Giving an ominous twist to the ongoing excavation at Ayodhya, VHP vice-president Giriraj Kishore today said digging around the disputed site has reinforced their claim that most mosques were built after destroying Hindu places of worship. | | | |
| Togadia charges Naidu with 'appeasement of minorities' | | 2003-03-18 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Continuing his tirade against the TDP government in Andhra Pradesh, VHP International General Secretary Praveen Togadia today accused TDP supremo and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of resorting to 'appeasement of minorities' with an eye on next year's assembly elections. | | | |
| Togadia faces hurdle in Naidu land | | 2003-03-18 | Express News Service | The Indian Express | | VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia, who was arrested in Andhra Pradesh today and later released on the directions of the high court, lashed out at the Chandrababu Naidu government, accusing him of stifling the voice of ‘‘Hindu nationalists’’ to appease minorities. | | | |
| Singhal asks Muslims to give up disputed site | | 2003-03-17 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Describing excavation as a "slow and time consuming exercise", VHP chief Ashok Singhal on Monday appealed to the Muslims to give up their claim on the disputed site in Ayodhya and demanded a Parliament legislation to facilitate temple construction | | | |
| Singhal asks Muslims to give up disputed site | | 2003-03-17 | KG Suresh (PTI) | The Hindustan Times | | Describing excavation as a "slow and time consuming exercise", VHP chief Ashok Singhal on Monday appealed to Muslims to give up their claim on the disputed site in Ayodhya and demanded a Parliament legislation to facilitate temple construction. | | | |
| Togadia now eyes seven mosques in Haryana | | 2003-03-17 | PTI | The Indian Express | | Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Parvin Togadia has threatened to take legal recourse to claim seven sites in Haryana where mosques were built after allegedly demolishing temples. | | | |
| Tension in Rajasthan as Muslims observe Muharram | | 2003-03-14 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Tension ran high in two Rajasthan towns even as 30 people, including three Hurriyat Conference leaders, were detained in Kashmir as Shiite Muslims took out Muharram processions across the country on Friday to mourn the seventh century Muslim saint Imam Hussain | | | |
| Govt puts Christians under survey for third time | | 2003-03-14 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The state government is learnt to have ordered two different surveys through the CID (intelligence) since February this year, of Christians in the state seeking details of their conversions. | | | |
| Three hurt in Hindu-Muslim clashes in Gujarat | | 2003-03-14 | Reuters | Indian Express | | Three people were hurt in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat on Friday during a procession for an Islamic day of mourning, Muharram, police said. | | | |
| Rapist's father burns Dalit victim alive in MP | | 2003-03-12 | HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times | | A Dalit girl was burnt to death by the father of the person who had been accused of raping the girl. The police have arrested one Ramveer Singh Tomar who allegedly burnt the girl. | | | |
| Minority report | | 2003-03-12 | Editorial | Hindustan Times | | In fact, conducting surveys of homes and addresses of people on a communal basis is a dangerous idea as it is typically a prelude to focused violence against minority communities. The Jews were targeted thus in Nazi Germany and non-Muslim communities in Afghan-istan in the Taliban years and, more recently, in Bangladesh. Indeed, Gujarat itself went through a similar experience not long ago. Since the instigators of last year’s riots are virtually being assisted by the Modi government in getting away scot free through the dilution of FIRs, any suspicious activity in Gujarat is bound to attract wide attention | | | |
| 'Survey' a routine police inquiry: Govt | | 2003-03-12 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | The Gujarat government declared on Tuesday that no survey was being carried out in the state, ahead of placing the anti-conversion Bill in the assembly, this month-end. It has called the alleged survey, mainly of Christian bodies, as a “routine police inquiry, not seeking to harm anyone.” | | | |
| Aligarh tense after mob kills Dalits | | 2003-03-11 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | Panic struck half a dozen villages under the Khair police station, 50 km from here, after a violent mob killed two Dalits in broad daylight | | | |
| Christian body terms survey in Gujarat illegal | | 2003-03-11 | PTI | Times Of India | | Calling for an immediate halt to the gathering of statistics on Christians by the Gujarat government, a Christian organisation on Tuesday demanded an "apology" from the Centre and the state governments and said the exercise was "illegal". | | | |
| Cong, BJP spat in LS over survey of Christians in Gujarat | | 2003-03-11 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Congress and BJP members had heated exchanges in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday after S Jaipal Reddy said the Gujarat government had unleashed a "reign of terror" on the Christian community by ordering a survey through the police department. | | | |
| VHP threat to ‘reclaim’ 30000 shrines | | 2003-03-11 | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT | The Telegraph | | The Vishwa Hindu Parishad today warned Muslims that it would launch a nationwide agitation for “reclamation” of the 30,000 temples that were “converted” into mosques if they do not “reconsider” their statements or “change their mindset” on the Ramjanmabhoomi issue. | | | |
| ‘Innocent’ Naroda residents face police wrath | | 2003-03-11 | BASANT RAWAT | The Telegraph | | A man of Naroda Gam and his son were arrested some time ago along with 10 others for killing Ghanshyam Patel during the riots that followed the Sabarmati Express train attack last year. | | | |
| Gujarat denial on Christian surveys | | 2003-03-11 | PTI | Indian Express | | Gujarat government today admitted it had conducted surveys on the state’s Christian community but said it was done at the ‘‘local level’’ and in ‘‘response’’ to a parliamentary query. | | | |
| Christian council to move court against survey | | 2003-03-10 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | The All India Christian Council (AICC) has decided to move the Gujarat High Court against the survey of Christians allegedly undertaken by the state police. But on Sunday, a top police official denied that any such survey had been ordered | | | |
| Gujarat Christians allege survey of families | | 2003-03-10 | Rathin Das | Hindustan Times | | The Gujarat Police have reportedly started a discreet survey of Christians in some parts of the state, seeking information on family sizes, job profiles and sources of foreign funds. The All-India Christian Council, which submitted a memorandum to the state police chief on Friday, is planning to move the High Court over the issue next week | | | |
| VHP to focus on Bhopal 'Jama Masjid' | | 2003-03-05 | SUCHANDANA GUPTA | Times Of India | | The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is now staking claim on the ‘Jama Masjid’ in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal. | | | |
| Strip Sewa Int'l, HSS of charity status: UK Asians | | 2003-03-05 | Nabanita Sircar | Hindustan Times | | Following media reports in UK against Sewa International and the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, Supporters of South Asia Solidarity, maintained a candle-light vigil outside the Charity Commission premises on Monday demanding the two organisations be stripped off their charity status. | | | |
| Invented Enemy: Savarkar's Politics of Revenge | | 2003-03-03 | JYOTIRMAYA SHARMA | The Times Of India | | Dhananjay Keer's biography of Savarkar talks of an incident when the 12-year-old Savarkar led a march of his schoolmates to stone the village mosque. Savarkar's own account of the incident speaks of him and his friends dancing with joy whenever they heard of Hindus killing Muslims in acts of retribution. Vandalising a mosque was their contribution to preserving Hindu dharma and establishing national honour. Savarkar's description of this incident is significant"We vandalised the mosque to our heart's content and raised the flag of our bravery on it. We followed the war strategy of Shivaji completely and ran away from the site after accomplishing our task," says Savarkar.The Muslim boys in the village retaliated. Savarkar's band of dharmavir warriors met the challenge with knives, pins and foot rulers. Savarkar recounts the victory of the Hindus in this dharma yuddha. In every sense, therefore, Savarkar is the father of the language of pratishodh and pratikaar, all synonyms for revenge, retribution and retaliation. The BJP, Shiv Sena, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Narendra Modi and Praveen Togadia are heirs and successors of Savarkar | | | |
| Declare India Hindu nation: VHP tells Govt | | 2003-03-03 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Declaring that it was on the path of confrontation with the Vajpayee government over the Ram temple issue, the VHP has said it was not concerned about the government's stability and demanded amendment in the Constitution for declaring India as a Hindu nation | | | |
| Why Not A Man Slaughter Ban? | | 2003-03-03 | Outlookindia | Outlookindia | | For such a placid animal, the cow has triggered one heck of a lot of violence | | | |
| Sangh following dangerous agenda: Digvijay Press Trust of India | | 2003-03-02 | Press Trust of India | Hindustan Times | | Continuing his tirade against the Sangh Parivar, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh on Sunday charged it with following a "dangerous agenda that may divide the country and the society or both". | | | |
| Violence in Ahmedabad after India beat Pak | | 2003-03-01 | AP | Times Of India | | Violence broke out between Hindus and Muslims after India defeated Pakistan in their World Cup match Saturday, leaving shops and vehicles burned and at least one person injured, police said. | | | |
| Age of the bully | | 2003-02-28 | Khushwant singh | Hindustan Times | | Many utterances of Narendra Modi, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore and, most of all, Praveen Togadia are in clear violation of the law against spreading communal hatred, but no action is taken against them. Nor is it likely to be taken despite their announcements in public that they will go ahead with their plans to build a temple in Ayodhya regardless of what the Supreme Court or the Central government has to say. How long will we have to give in to these bullies? | | | |
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