Ban the Congress Party of India
On 27 February 2002, when a coach of Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya wentup in flamesatGodhrarailway station, a Congress member of the Godhra municipality, Haji Balal, led a mob and stopped the fire-fighting vehicle on its way to the station. The fire crew reported that “he had been visiting the fire station at night for the past few days on the pretext of watching films on television.” Haji Balal, a few days earlier, had the clutch plates of one of the main fire-fighting vehicles removed; in the second vehicle, the nut connecting the pipe to the water tank was spirited away.[2]
Haji Balal who, according to locals, proudly proclaimed himself the “Bin Laden of Godhra”, is among eleven people convicted for criminal conspiracy and murder and sentenced to death by a special fast track court in the high-security Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad on 22 February 2011.[3]
Other Congress members were also “booked for the carnage”.[4]The attack on the pilgrims was carried out “according to what was planned earlier under the directions of [the late] Maulvi Umarji”,[5]a religious leader of the Ghanchi Muslims of Godhra.[6]“All the acts like procuring petrol, circulating false rumour, stopping the train and entering in coach S/6 were in pursuance of the object of the conspiracy,” concluded the Nanavati Report. “The conspiracy hatched by these persons further appears to be a part of a larger conspiracy to create terror and destabilise the Administration.”[7]
“Destabilise the Administration”:Narendra Modihad assumed office as Gujarat Chief Minister on 7 October 2001, four months earlier. Incidentally, Maulvi Umarji got a ticket to campaign for the Congress in December 2002 state election in Gujarat.
In order to quickly gather a crowd of angry Muslims to the Godhra station and attack the train, so that no one would guess who was pouring petrol in the S6 and S7 coaches, rumours that a Ghanchi Muslim girl had been abducted by theKar Sevakswere spread by theJamiat-Ulema-E-Hind(JUH), a long-standing ally of the Congress.[8]
This murderous bunch of political sycophants have created havoc in India during its tenure resulting in murder, genocide, corruption of unprecented levels and the destruction of Indian dociety ideals and its image and should be banned with the perpetrators thrown in jail.
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