Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leader Sanjay Joshi may not be seeing eye to eye now and Modi on Thursday had his way in ousting Joshi from the BJP National executive, but at one time they were friends and in fact started their political careers together in Gujarat.
Jacob Martin, former captain of Baroda Ranji cricket team, joined the Congress in Vadodara today.
At least three persons were killed in an accident between a moving truck and a stationary dumper near in Vadodara, police said.
Two youths from Bihar, who had come to Gujarat to appear in a railway exam, were thrown out of a moving train following a scuffle with fellow passengers in Nadiad leaving one of them dead and the other injured.
The special investigation team (SIT), which gave a clean chit to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the Gulberg Society massacre case, dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's evidence after a witch-hunt, a lawyer in the case said on Friday.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today charged the Centre with not responding to his letter on the plight of Indian workers stranded in Angola after they protested against the management of a cement factory for non-payment of wages.
Keshubhai Patel, who headed BJP's first government in Gujarat in the nineties, has attacked chief minister Narendra Modi alleging that the entire states was "living in fear" under the present government.
Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, on Thursday demanded "missing documents" of the final report of the special investigation team, which has exonerated Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.
The Gujarat government on Thursday was silent on the controversy that it had allegedly sponsored foreign trips of SIT chief RK Raghavan, whose final report on the Gulberg society massacre had exonerated chief minister Narendra Modi of all charges on his reported role in the incident.
Raising doubts on the impartiality and objectivity of the investigation carried out by the SIT headed by Dr RK Raghavan into Gulbarg society massacre case, the Gujarat government has been accused of sponsoring Raghavan's "frequent foreign trips."
Zakia Jaffery, wife of Congress leader Ehsaan Jaffrey slain in post-Godhra riots, today moved a court seeking documents from SIT related to the probe carried out by the agency, based on her complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others, with regards to the 2002 violence.
The handling of cases pertaining to the 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat riots by the National Human Rights Commission and the Supreme Court reflects the seriousness the country attaches to human rights complaints of its citizens, former CJI JS Verma has said.
While the Gujarat government celebrated the exoneration of CM Narendra Modi by the final SIT report, activists and legal experts pointed out that the SC-appointed panel had contradicted its own preliminary report of 2010.
Mahesh Langa reports.
What SIT closure report says |
Malhotra vs RaghavanThe Gujarat government on Wednesday said that though the Supreme Court-appointed SIT had exonerated chief minister Narendra Modi, "some elements" were still "spreading lies" to defame the state government.
Relief for Narendra Modi at being exonerated by the special investigation team (SIT) may be short-lived because the report on the Gujarat chief minister given by the amicus curiae (friend of the court), Raju Ramchandran, recommends his prosecution.