Karnataka - Hassan   

Centre urged to book culprits

HASSAN: Members of the Hassan District Progressive Forum took out a protest rally here on Saturday demanding that the Union Government constitute an inquiry commission so that those responsible for the violence unleashed against Muslims in Gujarat could be brought to justice.

Centre for Indian Trade Unions district secretary Dharmesh, Mubashir Ahmed, Earappa, Mohammad Rizwan, Altaf Khan, Afroz Pasha, Aslam Pasha, B.G. Girish, Manjunath, Mohammad Arif and Samir Pasha were among those who participated in the rally.

Mr. Dharmesh said that after the Gujarat riots, more than one lakh people had been thrown to the streets.

Children had become orphans and families had lost their breadwinners.

Rape and murder were committed on a large scale throughout the State of Gujarat, he said and regretted that nobody had been brought to book as yet.

No action against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had been taken despite victims crying for justice.

Mr. Dharmesh said that Ajmer Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Rajasthan was well known for communal harmony, where both Hindus and the minorities offered prayers.

This had united both the communities emotionally as well spiritually.

He criticised the Rajasthan Government for not being able to arrest those involved in the blasts there before Ramzan. Terrorists across the border were responsible for such massacres, he said and accused the BJP of not having done anything to protect the people in the two States.

The forum demanded that the Union Government debar Mr. Modi from contesting elections in future till the report was made public.It also asked the Gujarat Government to withdraw restrictions imposed on the media.

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