A Summary on Godhra Riots

Summary

This article will expose , How BJP, RSS, VHP & Other Hindutva Organisations used Junior Hindutva Leaders like Tissue Paper, in the after math of Godhra Riots.

Godhra Riots took place, just a month after BJP lost Assembly Elections across SIX STATES across Northern India. Godhra Riots was state sponsored voilence and it was meant to burnish the image of BJP as a party of Hindu Nationalists.

According to official figures, the riots resulted in the deaths of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus.An estimated 254 Hindus were killed during Godhra Riots , of them at least 249 Hindus were killed during police firing.

As Anti Muslim Riots spiraled out of Control , by end of March 1st , RAF and Army Battalions were flown in to swiftly contain the violence and a curfew had been declared in 27 towns and cities across the state. A Shoot To Kill order was issued.

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BJP Leader V.K Malhotra was a Spokesperson for the party – and was defending the then Gujarat Chief Minister – Narendra Modi’s role in Godhra Riots.

Here is a statement from BJP Leader V.K Malhotra in THE TIMES OF INDIA Newspaper “…V K Malhotra said that the official toll of 254 Hindus, killed mostly by police firing , indicates how the state authorities took effective steps to curb the violence…”

Govardhan Zadafia, the Gujarat State Home Minister boasted in front of the media that there would be no more retaliation from the Hindu Community for the train burning and the violence has been contained.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi stated that if the situation warranted it, the police would be supported by deploying the army.

A large number of Junior Hindutva Leaders were convicted on basis of Cooked up cases based on False Testimonies given by Tutored Witnesses. Many of them were sentenced up to 30 years in prison.

Former CBI director, R. K. Raghavan , who led Special Investigation Team (SIT) for Godhra Riots dismissed a large number of cases pertaining to Godhra Riots as being cooked up by False witnesses. He stated that false witnesses were tutored to give evidence about imaginary incidents by ( Foreign Funded ) NGOs.

On Dec 3, 2010 -Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has cleared Gujarat CM Narendra Modi of the charge that he failed to discharge his constitutional duty to intervene swiftly and stop the communal riots that engulfed the state in 2002.

On 15 September 2011 – the Gujarat government under Chief Minister Narendra Modi approached the High Court to enhance the punishment of 27 Ode case riot convicts from life imprisonment to death penalty. A Hindu mob killed 23 Muslims, including nine children, in the Ode village of Gujarat’s Anand district.

Gujarat Government under Chief Minister Narendra Modi also sought Death Penalty for Maya Kodnani. Sources revealed that Gujarat Government gave the sanction to public prosecutors to file an appeal in the Naroda Patia massacre case to demand capital punishment for Maya Kodnani , Babu Bajrangi and nine others. Gujarat Government gave an order to form a panel to file an appeal with Gujarat High Court in the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre case and seek capital punishment for 10 convicts, including Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The SIT had sought the state government’s nod immediately after special judge Jyotsna Yagnik had delivered her verdicts, convicting Kodnani, Bajrangi and a host of other accused. On 17 April 2013, the Gujarat government decided to seek death penalty for Maya Kodnani by filing an appeal in the High Court against the Special Court’s judgement in the case

The special court had sentenced former Minister of State for Women and Child Development – Maya Kodnani to 28 years in jail for the massacre of 97 Muslims in Naroda Patia and Babu Bajrangi was sent to jail for the rest of his life.

This is a story of how Junior HINDUTVA LEADERS were used as TISSUE PAPER by BJP, RSS , VHP and SANGH PARIVAR after Godhra Riots.

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