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Route: The March will start at 1400 hours (2 pm) from Jantar Mantar till Rajghat New Delhi

A delegation team met the Governor of Gujarat today and submitted the memorandum
MEMORANDUM
Subject - The Law and Order Situation in the State
01-10-2008
To Shri NavalKishore Sharma, The Governor of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.
Sir,
All the citizens of Gujarat condemn the act of terrorism, the faceless enemy of the society, which can only be contained with the active involvement of the people and the civil society in a democratic way. Instead, the BJP Government in Gujarat led by Sri (…)

concerned members of university and college faculties, write to condemn the ongoing violations of the human and civil rights of its citizens by the state of Chhattisgarh, India. These violations include the arbitrary arrest and indefinite detention of hundreds of people, including Dr. Binayak Sen, an internationally respected provider of medical services to Chhattisgarh’s tribal communities, threats and assaults against civil liberties activists, lawyers and journalists, and most egregious of all, the growing depredations of the state-sponsored violent militia known as the Salwa Judum.

This paper explores the relationship between Hindu nationalism and the Congress in the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that the Congress knowingly and wilfully included and empowered Hindu nationalist ideologues in this period, most notably K M Munshi. Through such membership, the Hindutva agenda was advanced, while the ideology as a whole was rehabilitated and made an acceptable and normative feature of post-colonial Indian political life.

If Human rights are violated in the process of combating terrorism, it will be self-defeating