Petition to the President of India, Chief Justice Supreme Court, Election Commission, Prime Minister

PETITION TO

 The President of India

 The Chief Justice Supreme Court

 The Election Commission

 The Prime Minister of India

October 29, 2007

It has been proved beyond doubt by the Tehelka investigations into the 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujarat that Narendra Modi, the then Home Minister Gordhan Zadaphia, the then Ahmedabad Police chief P. C. Pandey actively colluded in killing Muslims and planning their mass murder and destruction of the property . The Chief Minister, Home Minister and their whole administration not only planned, provoked and encouraged the massacre of Muslims and destruction of their property but also ensured that mass murderers and rapists got a safe hiding.

Active subversion of the fundamental principles of secular governance is a continuous and running theme in the Gujarat governance as has been comprehensively demonstrated on camera that all the arms of the state of Gujarat willingly abdicated their constitutional responsibility to safeguard the life, liberty, dignity and property of the citizens even after the killings, rapes, loot and destruction subsided. What is even more reprehensible is that the whole system of Judiciary stands exposed as it has been claimed by the government counsels that the judges at different levels were actively subverting the course of justice.

The Tehelka tapes present incontestable evidence of the involvement of state machinery in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. It captures several confessions including that of

• The state prosecutor Arvind Pandya who stated that the "mass killings of Muslims in Gujarat should be celebrated every year as a victory day" and that "Every judge was calling me in his chamber and showing full sympathy for me… giving full cooperation to me, but keeping some distance… the judges were also guiding me as and when required… how to put up a case and on which date… because basically they are Hindus".

• Maza aata hai na, saheb [I enjoy it]… I came back after I killed them, called up the home minister and went to sleep… Babu Bajrangi

• Another confession came from Babu Bajrangi who stated that "to get me out of jail, [Chief Minister] Narendra Modi changed judges thrice".

• Yet another MLA acknowledged that Modi gave him "three days to do whatever violence they wanted".

We the undersigned endorse the above statement are calling upon the The President of India, The Chief Justice Supreme Court, The Election Commission and The Prime Minister of India:

1. The immediate dismissal of the Narendra Modi administration and imposition of President’s rule in Gujarat.

2. Cancellation of the present election dates as elections cannot be held in Gujarat in the present circumstances.

3. Requesting the Election Commission to ask the Supreme Court to constitute a CBI brobe under a supreme court judge and if there is prima facie case then BJP should be barred as a political party.

4. Govt of India should sign the Genocide convention and Modi needs to be tried by a tribunal

5. The immediate arrest of the all criminals who have confessed their crimes in the Tehelka tapes.

6. RSS, VHP , Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena be declared unlawful organizations and a high level enquiry under the aegis of the Supreme Court of India be set to uncover the designs of these organizations whose top leaders have proudly claimed on camera that they were involved in rapes, looting, making of bombs, rockets .

7. Re-investigate Nanded bomb blast case and following bomb blast cases where activists have pointed out the involvement of the RSS. Now there is clear evidence on tape that the Sangh is involved in large scale Bomb making exercise and killing innocent people.

It is a test case for the Indian state and if the Supreme Court and the Central Government fail to act they would sow a seed of destruction of secular polity.

Abha Bhaiya

Aditi Mangaldas

Ali Asghar

Amit Ashar

Amit R. Baishya,

Amit Sengupta-

Amrit Gangar, Mumbai

Anahita Sarabhai

Anand Patwardhan

Anil Mehta

Anil Nauriya

Anjali Monteiro,

Anupa Mehta

Apoorvanand

Arun Kumar Bidani

Arundhati Dhuru

Arunesh Maiyar

Asad Zaidi

Nalini Taneja

Ashok Chatterjee

Ashok Gupta

Ashok Vajpeyi

Astad Deboo

Betu Singh

Bipin Shah

C Vanaja

Chandra Shekhar Sinha

Chitra Sundaram

Daya Ram

Debal Das Gupta

Dhananjay Tingal

Dinesh Abrol

Dinesh Abrol

Dr. Angana Chatterji

Dr. Anwar Alam

Dr. Shaik Ubaid

Dr. Upendra Baxi

Feroze Mithiborwala

Former President

Fr Cedric Prakash

Francis Parmar

Gagan Sethi

Ghanshyam Shah

Gulamrasul Mansuri

Gulamrasul Mansuri

Habeeb Ahmed

Hannah Jayapriya

Henri Trifange

Himanshu Joshi

Himanshu Joshi

I.K.Shukla Writer

Imrana Qadeer

Iqbal Kumar

Irfan Engineer

Ishan loya

Jamal Kidwai

Javed Ameer

javed malick

Jaya Mehta

Jaya Prakash Telangana

Jayasankar K. P

Jyoti Puri, Director

Kaleem Kawaja

Kalyani Menon – Sen

Kamini Jaiswal

Kamla Bhasin

Kanchan Chander

Kannan Srinivasan

Kashif-ul-Huda, Editor,

Kingshuk Nag

Kiran Kamal Prasad

KSS Nair

Leena Abraham

M.H. Jawahirullah

Mallika Sarabhai

Nandini Manjrekar

Mamta Dalal Mangaldas

Maya Herzberger

Maya Shanker

Mira Kamdar

Miriam Chandy Menacherry

Mohamed Ashok

Mohammad Imran Ringwood , NJ, USA

Monica Mody

Morag Deyes

Mukul Dube

Nandita Das

Narinder Kapur

Nasreen Rustomfram

neeraj malick

Nilanjana Biswas

Nirveek Bhattacharjee,

Padma Velaskar,

Pooja Sood

Pradeep Esteves

Pradeep Esteves

Prashant Bhushan

Premola Ghose

RA Ravishankar,

Radhika Subramaniam

Raja Swamy,

Rakesh Sharma,

rakeysh omprakash mehra Sukriti Syal

Rakhi Sehgal,

Raksha Bhadaria

Ram Puniyani

Ranjana Padhi

Rathikant Basu

Ravi Shukla

Ritambhara Shastri

Ruchika

S. M. Shahed

Sahir Raza

Sameer Uppadhaya (

Sandeep Pandey

Sanjoy Roy

Sejal Dand

Shabnam Hashmi

Shahjahan

Sharon Lowen

Shohini Ghosh,

Siddharth Dube

Smitu Kothari

Sohail Hashmi

Stalin K

Sujata Madhok

Sukriti Syal

Sumita Hazarika

Swaminathan Kalidas Ayyer

Uma Asher,

Uma Chakravarty

Veena Pani Chawla

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Vijay Parmar

Vijay Prakash Jani

Vineet Tiwari

Vipul Sangoi

Vrushali Pendharkar

Xavier Manjooran

Yadavan Chandran

Zafar Iqbal