RJP demands probe into attacks

GANDHINAGAR, AUG 3: The Rashtriya Janata Party RJP has urged Governor Anshuman Singh to direct the Keshubhai Patel Government to institute a judicial inquiry into the recent series of mob attacks by VHP-Bajrang Dal workers on Christians and Muslims in different parts of Gujarat.

The RJP has also requested the Governor to ensure that the recent government resolution GR reversing the previous Shankarsinh Vaghela regimes decision to convert the Gujarat Minorities Board GMB into an autonomous corporation be withdrawn at the earliest.

A five-member delegation led by former Minister of State for Home Vipul Chaudhary met the Governor on Saturday evening and handed over a memorandum to him, listing a series of violent attacks on Christians and Muslims and charging the present BJP government with acirc;euro;tilde;protecting and shielding the VHP-Bajrang Dal activists involved in the incidents. Other members of the delegation were Gujarat Waqf Board chairman Mohammadali Qadri, Shehnaz Babi, Father Francis Parmar of StXaviers College and Ahmedbhai.