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ANHAD, 4, Windsor Place, New Delhi-10001 Tel-23327366/ 23327367 e-mail: <anhadinfo@y...> PRESS STATEMENT: PROTEST AGAINST NARENDRA MODI AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 24, 2003 There was a massive protest organized by Anhad ( Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) at Taj Palace Hotel in Delhi, the venue for the World Economic Forum summit against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and the state-sponsored genocide in Gujarat. The summit had just about begun and while the delegates were waiting for Modi, there was a sudden and huge upsurge of activists from various organizations who assembled at the foyer and blocked the escalator and the main entrance to the summit hall. They were shouting slogans against Modi and the killings in Gujarat, including the crude manner justice has been denied to thousands of victims by the BJP-led Modi government. Modi is shielding the killers, they said. The slogans included: Mass Murderer of Gujarat Go Back, World Economic Summit and Narendra Modi Down Down, CII and Corporate India Shame Shame, Brand India, Genocide India. The peaceful protest went on for more than an hour with the protestors singing songs at the main entrance to the summit hall, despite the police and security presence. ???How can the World Economic Summit entertain a man and give him a platform who openly flaunted and celebrated the mass murder of hundreds of innocent people and the rapes of women after the tragic Godhra killing,??? shouted the protestors. ???Has corporate India become totally blind to such blatant injustice???? ???Money + Murder = Modi, said a placard. Other placards compared Hitler with Modi. The protestors included Harsh Mander, Nafisa Ali, Shabnam Hashmi, John Dayal, Apoorvanand and others. o o o The Hindustan Times November 25, 2003 Protests greet Modi at CII meet venue HT Corporate Bureau (New Delhi, November 24) Social activist Nafisa Ali along with representatives from the Safdar Hashmi Trust, Action India, Ahad and Basix raised slogans against the decision of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and World Economic Forum (WEF) to invite Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to speak on The Competitiveness of States: Sharing Best Practices. About 40 activists trooped into the lobby of the Taj Palace hotel just before Modi was to address the meeting and sang, "We shall overcome". Shouting slogans like "Modi go back", "Khooni" and "Man who instigated the communal riots", the activists alleged that Modi was responsible for the communal violence and killings in Gujarat last year. The main demand of the protesters was that Modi should not have been invited. They also said that progress in Gujarat was a sham. Nafisa Ali criticised the CII for inviting Modi. Coming as this episode does after CII director general Tarun Das apologising to Modi earlier this year, the CII-Gujarat CM relationship remains strained. Later, answering queries from the participants, Modi refuted the charges that there was any victimisation in Gujarat and referred to the fact that Muslims in the state had the highest per capita income. He, however, admitted, "Whatever happened in Gujarat one-and-a-half years ago should not have happened in a civilised society." Earlier, the chief minster told the conference that Gujarat was the best destination for investment that gave unlimited opportunities to industrial houses. -------------------------------------------- Courtesy:Harsh Kapoor www.sacw.net |
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