New Socialist Movement

Letter to DGP

JAN SANGHARSH MANCH
104, Maharanapratap Complex, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad- 380006.
Dated: 14.11.2008
 
To,
The Director General of Police,
State of Gujarat,
Police Bhavan, Gandhinagar.
 
Subject:              The Proposed meeting of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, proposed to                                           be held on 16.11.2008.
Sir,
              Our organization has come to learn from a pamphlet circulated in Ahmedabad by Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS)  that HJS has [...]

Sessions Court Convicts Officers of Lubi Electricals

SESSIONS COURT AWARDS LIFE SENTENCE TO THE LABOUR OFFICER JAGDISH THAKOR AND THREE OTHERS OF LUBI ELECTRICALS FOR KILLING A WORKER AGITATING FOR MINIMUM WAGE.
 
The additional Sessions Judge Shri R.H. sharma convicted the labour officer Shri Jagdish Babubhai Thakor , his son Mukesh Jagdish Thakor, Shri Mahipal Chauhan, security guard and Rajubhai Madrasi  for offences [...]

High Court Indicts Purshottam Solanki

THE HIGH COURT INDICTS THE MINISTER OF PORTS AND FISHERIES FOR GIVING ILLEGAL CONTRACT FOR FISHING ON EXTRANEOUS GROUNDS
In a significant judgement and order, the division bench of the High Court of Gujarat comprising Ms Justice R.M. Doshit and Mr.Justice S.D. dave squarely held the minister Mr. Purshottam Solanki guilty of granting contracts of fishing [...]

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - Press Note

HIGH COURT NOTICE TO CENTRE, STATE AND MUNCIPAL SCHOOL BOARD FOR NOT RELEASING GRANT UNDER `SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN’ SCHEME.

Mr. Justice Jayant Patel of Gujarat High Court issued notice today to the (1) Union of India – Ministry of Human Resources,(2) State of Gujarat – Department of Primary education and (3) [...]

Ye Kaisi Aazadi Hai!

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. Yes! India has woken up to freedom, but for whom? After 61 years of Independence, around 400 million unorganised workers struggle to survive without any tangible right, though they substantially contribute to the national income. No employment [...]

Letter to Ratan Tata

AN OPEN LETTER TO RATAN TATA
(Mukul Sinha)
 
This is one letter I thought I must write. It is not often that people like Ratan Tatas’ write open letters and that to on their perception of the developmental model of the country. Curiously though, he addresses the letter to the ‘citizens of West Bengal’ rather than the [...]

Para 229 Untold stories

Para 229 Untold stories

Paragraph 229
Untold stories
(Mukul Sinha)
 
 

The eloquence of the Paragraph 229 of the report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the Godhra incident lies not in what it said but in what it did not say. Ironically, in a hurry to absolve the Chief Minister, other ministers and even the delinquent police officers from the lapses committed [...]

Paragraph 229, Clean Chit to Modi

Paragraph 229, Clean Chit to Modi

 
 
 
Paragraph 229
(Mukul Sinha)
 
 
(1)              229 may be a number that Narendra Modi would like to wear on his shirt sleeves as a lucky talisman. Of the 230 paragraphs that the Commission of Inquiry Chaired by Justice G.T.Nanavati devoted to the unraveling the “conspiracy to set the S/6 coach on fire”, the paragraph 229 absolved the Chief [...]

Godhra Incident Revisited

 
 
 

 
THE DERAILED REPORT OF NANAVATI COMMISSION
 
COMMENTS ON NANAVATI COMMISSION REPORT
 

 

 
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO
GODHRA
 
REPORT ON THE BURNING OF SABARMATI EXPRESS
 

 

Jan Sangharsh Manch comments on Nanavati Commission Report

 
THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS

(Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra)
 
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH

PREAMBLE:
 
1.              On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying the screaming headlines of the gruesome death [...]