The demolition of Champaner Dargah that had led to riots in the walled city areas of Vadodara more than three years ago may haunt political leaders and bureaucrats again. For, Gujarat high court has issued notices to the then mayor, municipal commissioner, police commissioner of the city on a petition filed by one Mohammad Arif [...]
A day after the Gujarat government announced its decision to set up an inquiry commission to study change in demographic patterns in the state since independence and identify the reasons behind the “polarisation” and migration of population, NGOs and human rights activists have reacted strongly to the move. They say the move is intended to [...]
A delegation of Jan Sangharsh Manch consisting of Dr.Mukul Sinha, Shri S.H. Iyer and Shri Shamshad Pathan met Shri R.K. Raghavan, Chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Supreme Court and submitted an application for further investigation into the larger conspiracy under section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code to carry out [...]
Press Release 17th April, Ahmedabad The “Radio-active Nuclear deal” takes toll of the Right and the Left While the NSM welcomed the wisdom of the Indian Voters to keep out the NDA combination out of the central power, NSM was of the opinion that the Big business of India has now got [...]
Mukul Sinha’s party to support her candidature from Gandhinagar The New Socialist Movement (NSM) party in its meeting, held on Sunday, decided to support the candidature of Mallika Sarabhai who has declared her intention to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha election from Gandhinagar constituency as an independent candidate, said NSM chairman Mukul Sinha in a [...]
Dated: 16.3.2009 Press Release Unity of the Left and Democratic force: The only alternative for the oppressed people of Gujarat. The 15th loksabha election to be held in April/May 2009 appears to be turning into a fight between the “national parties” like INC and BJP on one hand and the regional parties on [...]
The Central Committee of the New Socialist Movement (NSM) in its meeting held today on 22nd March 2009 decided to support the candidature of Ms Mallika Sarabhai who has declared her intention to contest the forthcoming Loksabha election from Gandhinagar constituency as an independent candidate. The New Socialist Movement and its affiliated organizations Jan Sangharsh [...]
Ahmedabad: It has been exactly seven years since the tragic train burning incident at Godhra. But now those arrested under charges of POTA have something to cheer about as the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court have ordered that Godhra was not an act of terror.Rehana Sheikh’s husband Anwar Sheikh was jailed for his alleged [...]
Press Release The Trials and Tribulations of the Past Seven Years Seven Years back, on 27th February,around 8.30am in the morning, Mohamad Hussein Kalota , the then President of the Godhra Municipality was preparing to go to Gandhinagar to discuss with the Government about some problems of his Municipality. He received a telephone call from Godhra [...]
Ahmedabad : SIT records statement of Pande who was Ahmedabad police commissioner during 2002 riots The Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is re-investigating the nine post-Godhra communal riots cases of 2002, has recorded the statement of Gujarat Director General of Police PC Pande, the then Ahmedabad Commissioner of Police. Highly placed sources [...]
