The Hindu : `BJP-led Govt. at Centre must go'

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Sunday, Apr 28, 2002

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`BJP-led Govt. at Centre must go'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI APRIL 27. Eminent jurists, journalists , politicians and social activists have called for an "urgent need to change" the Government at the Centre. They have also appealed to "all MPs with secular credentials and secular democratic parties to join hands and evolve an alternative at the earliest, in the interest of the nation".

In a statement made available to the media, these concerned citizens, pointing to the ongoing communal violence in Gujarat, have called for the immediate replacement of the "BJP-led Government at the Centre, by a secular, democratic, liberal administration''. The signatories to the statement include veteran Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande, former Lok Sabha Speaker,Rabi Ray, Rajya Sabha MP, Kuldip Nayar, legal luminary and Rajya Sabha MP, Fali S. Nariman, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Rajindar Sachar, Swami Agnivesh, Valson Thampu, Muchkund Dubey, Amrik Singh , P.M. Bhargava, D. Bandhopadhya, Razia Ismail Abbasi and Sumit Chakravarty.

The signatories have also come down hard on the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government for turning a blind eye to the rioters, referring to "diehard communalists, who either cannot or will not be controlled by the State Government".

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