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A report from Hindustan Times, February 2002 provides information on the cases against RSS and BJP workers filed for their role in the anti Sikh riots on recommendations of the Jain - Aggarwal committee.

Citizens For Democracy (CFD) in its conference held today at New Delhi on ‘Challenges Before Democracy’ has viewed with grave concern the manner in which RSS has come out openly to contest the present elections by hoisting Narendra Modi as the Prime-Ministerial candidate - a calculated step to impose authoritarianism in the country to serve the corporate interests.

Sughra Mehdi was born in Bhopal, one of seven children. Her father was in the police service and her mother, a poet and litterateur – a talent that all her children inherited. As a child, growing up in the 1950s, she was brought to Delhi and lived on the Jamia Millia Islamia campus.

He greets his patients with loud curses as they stagger in — sick or drunken — to his chamber. He reserves his choicest expletives for those who visit him close to death. He ministers to them tenderly, gruffly waiving his doctor’s fees, often buying them their medication from his own pocket, and making arrangements for them to reach home safely. Dr Samir Biswas, 68, carries his years lightly. Stories about him have become the stuff of legend in the collieries of Asansol, West Bengal.

Narendra Modi appears to be confronting the BJP’s ’Old Guard’ just as Indira Gandhi fought the ’Syndicate’ within the Congress