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Godhra Kand & Gujarat Riots Explained

Nitish Rajput · 2,832 words · 13 min read

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0:00Revenge was also taken from the labourer who is sitting 200 km away from Godhra.

0:04The real problem happened when Tehelka magazine

0:06Released the new video of its sting operation.

0:08He was burnt alive on the same night on the 14th at 8:00 PM in the same bakery.

0:12As the train stops here around 2000 people were waiting.

0:16National Human Rights Commission said on record

0:19That both the reports are fevering their respective parties

0:21When kar sevak were present in the whole train, and the kar sevak were to be targeted

0:30It had been 9 to 10 years since 2002 the Babri Masjid and Ram Janam Bhoomi dispute.

0:35Hindu and Muslim organizations from all over India were involved in this dispute.

0:40One such Hindu organization is Vishwa Hindu Parishad

0:43Who performed the 100-day Purnahuti Maha Yagya in Ayodhya in February 2002?

0:48And in this Yagya, many people came from all over India and people from Gujarat also reached here.

0:53Those who were coming for the yajna are called kar sevaks.

0:56Kar means hand and Sevak means one who serves

0:59kar sevak means one who wants to serve with his will.

1:02Some people also call them Ram Bhakts

1:04kar sevak came to Ayodhya from Ahmedabad by train on 22 February

1:07For the purn aahuti mahayagya

1:09On 22 February, they had to go from Ahmedabad to Ayodhya.

1:13And on the 26th they had to come from Ayodhya to Ahmedabad by Sabarmati Express.

1:16There are many events in between coming back to Ahmedabad by train.

1:21I will tell them later so that it will be easier for you to make your own opinion.

1:24kar sevak reaches Ayodhya from Ahmedabad by train

1:26Yagya ends on 25 February and

1:28The kar sevaks who have come from all over the country

1:30go back to their homes.

1:32Similarly, the kar sevaks who came from Gujarat

1:34They also take the Sabarmati train from Ayodhya to go back.

1:37On 26 February 2002 train Sabarmati Express came which was bound to Ahmedabad from Faizabad

1:42The capacity of this train was 1100 but some people stood in the train

1:46So there were about 2000 people on this train.

1:48And out of these 2000 people, 1700 were kar sevaks

1:54It is said that coaches S5 and S6 had the most kar sevaks

1:58Whatever happened inside these two coaches

2:01That later became the reason for the Gujarat riots.

2:04reports of all investigations and different committees

2:07They all revolve around S5 and S6 coaches.

2:10This train was to reach Ahmedabad but this train was late.

2:13But there is a place before Godhra, Dahod, this train reaches there at 06:30.

2:17And before moving, let me tell you one more thing.

2:19In this entire video, I will speak only about what has been said in different SIT reports.

2:24Or it is already available on the public platform

2:31After this, the train reaches Godhra

2:33There, some kar sevaks get down and buy some goods too.

2:36And as the train moves a little beyond Godhra station

2:39The train chain is pulled multiple times. This is confirmed

2:43This was also confirmed by the driver there and after the investigation

2:47It was also confirmed by all the mechanical devices.

2:51As soon as the train stopped there were already 2000 people waiting.

2:54They did not target the entire train, they targeted coaches S5 and S6

3:01Stones were thrown at coach numbers S5 and S6.

3:03attacked with a domestic weapon

3:05The windows and doors of these two coaches are closed by the kar sevaks.

3:08and then it catches fire, by the time the fire brigade arrives

3:1159 people die in that coach

3:14There were 22 males, 27 females and 10 children.

3:17After this, the train reaches Ahmedabad at 4.30 with the same burnt bodies as it is.

3:25S6 and S5 caught fire

3:27But no one understood why coaches S5 and S6 caught fire.

3:31Everyone was confused, after this

3:32VHP leaders kept these bodies in an open vehicle

3:35And took out the dead bodies from the city and took them to the VHP office.

3:39When they were taken from the city, it was live telecasting.

3:42slogans were being raised after seeing these bodies the whole of Ahmedabad was shocked.

3:47Then people came to know what happened

3:49And this thing started getting out of control.

3:51After this, the VHP leaders took the bodies to 16 hospitals.

3:54After seeing these bodies all the Hindu organizations such as VHP

3:57Bajrang dal, RSS and their leaders also became very angry.

4:01And all these people started gathering near 16 hospitals.

4:04PCR van was parked near these 16 civil hospitals which informed the control room

4:08The situation may get worse.

4:10The way people are assembling by buses

4:13The situation may get out of control

4:15And after performing normal formalities these dead bodies were gradually taken

4:19to the cremation ground by different routes. Slogans were raised on the roads through

4:22Which bodies were being carried and things were getting out of hand in those areas.

4:30And worse things happened than you can imagine

4:33At that time there were not so many

4:35restrictions on news channels and this caused more trouble. Reporters while doing ground

4:46Find areas where there were no police and live telecast also caused one more trouble

4:51The entire information was reaching the whole of Gujarat.

4:53Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Godhra

4:56Baroda, Surat riots are going on everywhere

4:59For 3 days, the riots continued in Gujarat. 790 Muslims

5:03and 254 Hindus lost their lives

5:05And in Godhra, 59 people had already died.

5:08This is the official figure, the unofficial figure is more than that.

5:12On February 27, there were riots everywhere.

5:14Things got out of hand on 28 February when

5:17Naroda Patiya reaches Naroda village.

5:20There was a Gulberg Society in Chamanpura Ahmedabad

5:23Where Muslims were the majority and Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri also lived here.

5:28There were 29 bungalows and 10 apartments in this society Upper middle-class business families lived there.

5:34On 28 February at 9 am

5:36The crowd start gathering near the society

5:38and slogans are raised.

5:40The people of the society get scared seeing this and call the police back to back.

5:43No one comes from the side of the police after that

5:45people also reach out to congress MP Ehsan Jafri for help

5:48Ehsan also calls the police, chief police and the leaders for help

5:53But there's no help.

5:54And the crowd starts entering the society.

5:58And houses are set on fire

6:00Along with Ehsan who was Congress MP, 69 people have lost their lives.

6:05All the houses are damaged and 18 houses are completely burnt

6:10Except for one family out of these 18 families, no one has returned to this society to date.

6:15In October 2017

6:17Aaj Tak news channel published footage of Tehelka's sting operation

6:21It has 14 VHP and Bajrang Dal activists including ruling government MLA

6:25Were discussing how they have done that

6:28After the SIT discussion in 2016 11 people were sentenced to life imprisonment.

6:33On the same day one of the biggest incidents of the Gujarat riots. Naroda Patiya of Ahmedabad

6:37And next to it is the village Naroda which lasts over 10 hours

6:42And this one event has the highest number of deaths.

6:45When Gujarat shut down a crowd of 5000 attacked Naroda Patiya to take revenge.

6:50It seemed that someone was trying to start riots between Hindus and Muslims

6:54under proper planning.

6:56A crowd of 5000 starts attacking from 9:00 am

6:59And the attack lasts for 10 hours.

7:01Everything was burnt with an LPG cylinder. People were brought outside the house and killed.

7:06Where the weapons came to the mob, is a mystery to date.

7:09Even the big investigation team could not find out this to date

7:12Where did these people get weapons from?

7:15The houses were burnt, and women were assaulted

7:21The mastermind of the whole incident was Babu Bajrangi His sting operation was done by Tehelka.

7:25And publish the video

7:31That the government fully supported him in fact police were also present there

7:35They also supported him and said that there are many dead bodies, and it will be very difficult to manage them.

7:40separate the bodies.

7:41And later on, Babu Bajrangi gets life imprisonment.

7:44But what he was saying in the video could not be confirmed in court.

7:47To be honest, nothing has been confirmed in the court.

7:50Based on theories whose names came in these theories,

7:52All of them had to be released due to a lack of evidence. You must have heard the name of

7:57Maya Kodnani a lot. It's a very famous name. She was given a punishment for 28 years

8:01for organizing the whole event. Her name came and due to lack of evidence, she was released

8:06After the incidents of Naroda patiya, Maya Kodnani won by huge votes

8:10And she was also made a cabinet minister

8:13But due to this case, she had to leave this position.

8:16Next day on 1st March Hanuman Tekri is an area in Vadodara

8:19There used to be a bakery by the name Best Bakery. 14 people were hiding here.

8:23Out of the 14, 11 were Muslim and three were Hindu who worked in a bakery

8:27These 14 people were burnt alive on the same night and due to lack of evidence,

8:33no one has been punished to date. When questions were asked from the government on this situation

8:38So the government said that they took all steps in their capacity, but the crowd was too much

8:43And it was a reaction to an action in which the government had no role

8:47because of the crowd

8:48Letters were also sent to call the police from Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,

8:50where there was a Congress government but the opposition didn't help

8:56The government also said that the Chief Minister had called the SIT after reaching Godra on 27th.

9:00And curfew was also imposed near Godhra so that the situation does not get worse.

9:05At that particular time

9:06from 400 villages of Gujarat 6000, Haj pilgrims were coming back to Gujrat

9:11The Gujarat government maintains their complete security

9:13and bring them home with full security.

9:15But the thing is that when the government did so much, at that time

9:18Even after that, why are questions being asked to the government to date?

9:21From Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji to the opposition, why it is being said that

9:25why is Rajdharma not followed?

9:26There are many reasons behind blaming the government. Sanjiv Bhatt

9:30Who was the senior police officer in the Gujarat intelligence bureau

9:33At the time of the 2002 riots, He said in the recorded statement of the court that

9:37information had started coming to him from PCR regarding the situation will get worse

9:40The dead bodies of kar sevaks should not go from the city and from different places

9:43The police were also reporting about the riots But they could do nothing.

9:47According to him, the government held a meeting in the evening in which the police chief

9:51bureaucrats and It was explained to everyone that this is a reaction to action.

9:55People's anger will subside in two-three days and everything will be fine you don't need to interrupt

10:00In a 2007 November report in Outlook magazine Haren Pandya

10:03Who was the Home Minister of Gujarat at that time he confessed

10:07He was also present in the meeting on the night of 27 February.

10:11Where government high authority was telling them not to interrupt between and later on

10:14He was murdered by an unknown person which is not known to date

10:18The team was formed to investigate the Gujarat riots and the SIT that was constituted.

10:21Many questions have also been raised about it. The Gujarat Government formed a special

10:25Investigating team for its investigation, the Nanavati committee, was asked to investigate both

10:28the Gujarat riots and the Godhra incident together and this committee was led by a

10:32retired judge of the Supreme Court G T NANAVATI

10:36Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji was appointed at that time when the Sikh riots took place.

10:40At that time he was quite famous because

10:42He had even called former PM Narasimha Rao for questioning.

10:46But when it came to the Gujarat riots

10:48He did not call any of the government authorities for questioning.

10:51And gave a clean chit to everyone without questioning

10:54Many people questioned the government about this thing too.

10:57You have kept your close ones for investigation.

11:09This blame game was going on after that

11:10The Nanavati Commission submitted its final report of 1500 pages,

11:1345000 affidavits, and statements of thousand witnesses to the court.

11:19In which all the activists of the Gujarat Government, RSS and Bajrang Dal were given a clean chit.

11:24And it was also told in the Nanavati Investigation Report that

11:27The burning of the train in Godhra was pre-planned

11:31And the mastermind was Husain Ibrahim and Nanu Mian

11:35At that time, there was a BJP government in both the state and central places.

11:38And the Nanavati Commission's investigation was already underway.

11:41So no separate investigation was started but after 2 years in 2004

11:46When Congress's government comes to the centre after victory

11:48So the first thing that Congress does as soon as it comes to Central

11:51forms a separate committee for the investigation of the Gujarat riots

11:58And what came in the report was the same

11:59that Congress leaders were saying for the last two years.

12:02Umesh Chandra Investigation Committee said

12:04It was not a pre-plant attack but

12:06it was an accident the way the Nanavati commission was inclined toward a particular group

12:12In the same way, the Umesh Chandra Committee was formed by the Center.

12:15In that too an attempt was made to please a particular community.

12:18Many mistakes were made in the rush of elections in the same year.

12:23A common man who wants to know the truth, who should he believe?

12:25The Nanavati Commission says it was a planned attack

12:28On the other hand, Umesh Chandra's committee said that it was an accident

12:31India's top investigating officers were telling a completely different thing

12:35And see the coincidence

12:36Both the Investigation Committee put the version of their favourite leader before the court.

12:41After seeing all these things, the National Rights Commission said on record

12:45Both the reports are favoring their respective parties.

12:48which is a big mistake

12:50This has a long-term effect on society.

12:52And people's faith is reduced from law and order, both the committees were telling their versions

12:57Apart from this, an independent investigation was conducted which was named "Concerned Citizen Tribunal"

13:02There were many retired judges and activists on this committee the investment they made

13:07It was completely different from the story going on so far.

13:11The full report of this commission has been published by outlook

13:14Let me tell you as it is line by line what Outlook has published. As per the Tribunal report

13:19When kar sevak was going to Ayodhya from Gujarat only kar sevaks were on that entire train.

13:24And as soon as the train left from Ahmedabad to Ayodhya in between

13:27from Lucknow many people joint coach S5 and S6 without a ticket

13:32And as per the railway IGP minister Mr PP AGJA, something was wrong in S5 and S6 at that particular time.

13:41According to the report of the tribunal which has been published in Outlook, people who were sitting on the train

13:44They fought at many stations and this news was published by the newspapers of nearby places,

13:53But this way revenge was taken. The revenge was also taken from the labourer

13:57Who was sitting 24 km away from Godhra? What was the fault of those people?

14:01Govind Makwana whose 22-year-old boy got burnt in S6 when his body was being taken to the crematorium

14:06So there were a lot of crowds and everyone was furious. He said no to everyone with folded hands,

14:11I do not want to take any revenge. This was published by the Times of India in March 2002

14:16In this entire incident, an FIR was registered against 1500 people out of which 31 people were punished

14:22And out of those 31 people, 11 people were hanged and later on, those 11 were converted.

14:27to life imprisonment,63 people had to be released due to lack of evidence. This is the very

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