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From: sanjiva@tesla.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad)
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Subject: Re: India news bulletin d.23Feb86
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 17:33:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 17:33:17 1986
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> 
>  Communal Riots and Demonstrations
> 
> 
> According to some Hindu organizations, the
> disputed place is the birth place of Lord Rama;
> many Hindu organizations started "Ram Janam
> Bhumi" campaign for opening up of the place 2-3
> years ago. The site also includes a 16th century
> mosque built by the Moghul Emperor Babar. Because
> of the controversy, the site had been closed for
> the last 36 years to defuse communal tensions.
> 
> Demonstrations by Muslims were reported from Delhi, Srinagar
> and other cities in Kashmir, Calcutta, Lucknow,
> 

There were riots in Sehore, near Bhopal where Hindus took out a procession 
celebrating the Court Ruling that the site should be a Hindu Temple. Naturally,
^^^^^^^^^^^
they were set upon with sticks, stones and knives.

Who are these insensitive brutes, and should the police protect people whose 
actions are *so-o-o* likely to provoke a communal riot ? I agree that the 
violent should be found and tried, but what about the *innocent* who provoke
the violent so obviously ?

Game for a debate, anybody ?

> 
>  Hegde resigned and chosen again to be CM
> 

While I feel Hegde is THE best thing that happened to Karnataka politics in
a long time, the recent episode made me sad.
He's a great guy, and popular, but I don't think I'm cynical when I say the
whole episode was one where was fishing for publicity. Value - based politics
when several people in his party are the same guys who were accused of being 
scum when they were with Urs, in the Congress in the mid-seventies !
(Remember a guy called Sait ? I recall his being vilified in the mid- and late
seventies. I believe he's now a senior Janata legislator. )

Hegde fans to the rescue !

			Sanjiva