"Former home minister of Gujarat Amit Shah is among the top three candidates from the major political outfits featuring in the second phase of the Assembly elections who have "serious criminal cases of murder, kidnapping and theft" registered against them. Shah, who is fighting on a BJP ticket from Naranpura constituency of Ahmedabad district, has declared two charges of murder and two charges of kidnapping registered against him.
"BJP MP Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday rejected the party's clean chit to Nitin Gadkari over the alleged dodgy business practices of a group of companies linked to him, reinforcing doubts that the party chief, already diminished, may not be able to limp into a second term after his current tenure ends in December. "It is a betrayal of the people," Jethmalani said rejecting the testimonial of innocence that Gadkari secured from the party on the basis of the findings of S Gurumurthy, a chartered accountant-turned-Hindutva ideologue..."
"Clearly not learning from the lessons of their fellow party members in Karnataka, two BJP MLAs in Gujarat are under the scanner for allegedly watching porn in the Gujarat assembly. The two MLAs were identified as Shankar Choudhary and Jetha Dharwad. The pair had been sitting in the back rows of the assembly and were reportedly sharing an iPad, which according to a senior journalist contained "indecent pictures". The two MLAs had been sitting right under the media gallery and a senior journalist had taken a clipping of the content on the iPad.
"More than two years ago, 7-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in a car in the compound of the home where BJP politician Nitin Gadkari lives. Toral Varia Deshpande traveled to Nagpur to uncover the mystery surrounding the child's death, a case whose investigation was severely criticised by the courts recently.
'The Criminal Investigation Department in its charge sheet against former minister and BJP MLA H Halappa has stated that the two laboratory analyses have confirmed the charges of the victim that she was raped by Halappa. These reports have come as a conclusive evidence besides her oral complaint to the police. Deccan Herald has obtained a copy of the charge sheet from the CID under the Right to Information Act. The CID had filed the charge sheet against Halappa in the Shimoga JMFC last month alleging that he had raped Chandravati, wife of Venkatesh Murthy of Shimoga on November 27, 2009.
"A BJP leader from Ajnala, Ashok Taneja, was on Wednesday booked by the police for allegedly raping his 20-year-old daughter for the past eight years. A university student, his daughter has alleged in her complaint that her father has been sexually assaulting her for the past eight years and even threatened to kill her if she disclosed the matter to anyone. The victim has stated in her complaint that she finally mustered enough courage to tell her mother. Her maternal family living in Amritsar then came to know about the alleged rape of the girl, said the police.
"Watch this scene: SAR Geelani is invited to participate in a seminar on ‘Communalism, Fascism and Democracy, Rhetoric and Reality’ at Delhi University. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)’s goons – about 50 students – do what they are best at: vandalise the venue, hurl abuses and even spit on him. Geelani had not picked up a loudspeaker and started screaming in the street corners to get people all charged up. This was within the confines of a university conference room and a serious discussion.
"First-hand accounts from the men who plotted and executed the genocide in Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Sabarkantha. Mayhem was meticulously planned and carried out by VHP-Bajrang Dal cadres across Muslim localities... The VHP and the Bajrang Dal manufactured and distributed lethal weapons across the state, often with the connivance of the police... Shocking accounts of how the guardians of the law colluded with the outlaws to make Gujarat’s horror even worse... Key BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal activists speak openly of how Narendra Modi blessed the anti-Muslim pogrom...
"Dushman Number One makes for a catchy film title, but right now it's a real-life role for actor Aamir Khan, assigned to him by BJP functionaries in Gujarat.
"The Concerned Citizens Tribunal – Gujarat 2002, was conceived as a response to the carnage that rocked the state of Gujarat following the Godhra tragedy on February 27, 2002. The eight-member Tribunal was constituted in consultation with a large number of groups from within Gujarat and the rest of the country... The Tribunal collected 2,094 oral and written testimonies, both individual and collective, from victim-survivors and also independent human rights groups, women’s groups, NGOs and academics.
