While we wholly disagree with the declaration of the Prime Minister that the CPI (Maoist) is the gravest threat to the security of the country, it is equally difficult for us to agree with the violent activities of the Maoist in the name of “revolution”. The call to boycott the recent assembly elections in areas [...]
The Gujarat government on Tuesday maintained that Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan and three of her friends killed in a 2004 shootout were terrorists and said it would challenge a report of a metropolitan magistrate that said the police shot them in cold blood. A day after the report by Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang [...]
It was just one man among billions who finally brought justice and peace to the family of Ishrat Jahan Shaikh, killed in a fake encounter on June 14, 2004. His name — Mukul Sinha. It was 4.30 pm in 2007 when Musarat Jahan, Shamima Jahan and a friend entered advocate Mukul Sinha’s Ahmedabad office. The [...]
Five years after she was gunned down as an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist, Gujarat High Court has ordered a probe that would establish if indeed Ishrat Jahan was a fidayeen or simply a college student felled by trigger-happy policemen. The court has set up a three-member committee of senior IPS officers to investigate afresh the June 2004 killing [...]
The Gujarat high court on Thursday set up a three-member team comprising senior police officers of the state to investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The team, consisting of additional DGP Pramod Kumar, IG Mohan Jha and DIG JK Bhatt, has been asked to submit its report within three months. Ishrat Jahan, a student from Mumbai, [...]
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 [...]
Praful BidwaiOne can only marvel-if that’s the word-at the breathtaking speed with which the sangh parivar has vitiated the social climate in state after state. Within months of taking power in Karnataka, it has unleashed savage repression and turned Mangalore into a Hindu Taliban bulwark, where women are attacked if they go to a bar, [...]
There may be many a slip before the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Gujcoc) (Amended) Bill, 2003, passed in the State Assembly on Wednesday, becomes an Act, especially with the new government at the Centre promising to repeal Pota. Framed on the lines of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999, it may [...]
NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM Report, Proceedings and Resolutions 1st September, 2007 VENUE: Town hall, Ashram road ,Ahmedabad Inaugural Session. (Presided by Shri A.P.Ravani, Retd Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court) After registration of the delegates, the conference began with the screening of the film `Come see America’ by Sashi, highlighting America as the root cause of [...]
The New Socialist Movement in Gujarat along with the Muslim Intellectuals Forum (Mumbai), the Aman (Ahmedabad), the Bahujan Sangharsh Samiti (Nagpur) and other organisations, organised the National Conference against Fascism, Terrorism and Fake encountersin Ahmedabad on 1-2 Sept 2007. The Conference attempted to begin a campaign on the question of the growing fascisation of the [...]
