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GANDHINAGAR, July 27: The Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly has demanded the immediate dismissal of the Keshubhai Patel government for its “failure in tackling the Kandla catastrophe and checking the recurring violent attacks on minority communities in the state”.
A delegation of Opposition parties led by Congress Legislature Party leader Amarsinh Chaudhary called on the Governor at the Raj Bhavan here this evening. The delegation urged Governor Anshuman Singh to direct the BJP government to constitute an all-party MLA team and send it to towns and villages, which recently witnessed mob attacks on minority communities, to assess the situation there. The delegation demanded that postmortem be conducted on the 32 bodies discovered recently by a Congress team on two islands near Kandla.
Earlier Amarsinh Chaudhary told the press that the Centre was yet to concede the State Government’s request for an Inquiry Commission. “We demand that a commission headed by either a sitting or a retired Supreme Court judge be constituted to probe the circumstances leading to the Kandla tragedy,” he said.
The Opposition leader said the BJP Government had no moral right to continue in office even for a day, as it had failed on all fronts. The government had started victimising Congress workers and minority people were being attacked by RSS, VHP, and Bajrang Dal workers in the state. He said the police force was beingcommunalised and that Sangh Parivar activists were “pressurising the police, right from the constable to the DGP-level, to fall in line”. “And it is a pity that such police officers have become cowards in the BJP regime,” he said.
