PaRCha - JNU - General Procedures - 2001 ID-58954

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EBRUARY 27th .

GODHRA, 7:40 AM .

The Sabarmati Express, leavingGodhra .

en route Ahmedabad, is stopped at Signal .

F'alia, less than halt:a-kilometre fmm thQ .

»la tion. A mob-estimates of its size vary .

from 1.000 tn 2.000 -stones and lalt:r .

btu·ns coach S-6. .

GANDHINAGAR, MORNING .

It is 7:30am. Home minister Gordhanhhai .

Zhndapia drives to official bungalow no. 24 .

fromhis house in Ahmedabad.The assem-.

bly is to meet later in the day for the budg-.

C'l presentation by finance minister Nitin .

Patel. .

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At 8:10, Zhadapia receives a call on his .

mobile. Ashwinbhai Patel, a kar seuak on .

the Saharmati Express, tells him the train .

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is be ing stoned and burnt. .

I Zhadapia immediately calls the Pw1chmnhal distr ict superintendent of pol ice RajuBhargava (Godhra islocated in this district). Bhargava tells him: "There are somany people and we are so few.If I O[)Cll tire, things will get out of hand". Zhadapia says he is sending additwnal forces.He calls state director general of pol icc (DGP) K. Chakrabarty. He is told Lhal a force from the state reserve police (SRP) campat Godhra has been rushed to the spot. Another force from theBaroda SRPcamp is on the way. .

Zhadapia next calls chief minister r Nnrendra Modi. But Modi alreadyknows .. about Godhra-KaushikMehta, state.

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VHP joint general secretary, has called.

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him fi rst. Mehta has also told Modi that he, .

.V1fP organisingsecretary Arvindbhai.

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1\r:-tltmabhatt and the other joint general.

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. ccretary Jaidipbhai Patel are leavingfor .

Godhra. Modi has also asked health minis-.

trr Ashok Bhatt to rush to Godhra and co-.

ordinate arrangements. .

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lt is 9am.The control room in the chief .

minister's bungalow no.l is a hub of activ-.

ity. Reports come in from Godh~a. _Thepo-.

licc are badly outnumbered. W1Lhmthe .

hour.it is known that oneof thecoaches .

ll::l'> bl>an bum t. .

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ft is 11.30 now.Zhadapia goes to the As-.Just out-.

~idr, Chinubhai Patel, governmenl-a~-.

pn mterl chairman of the Cow Protec~wn .

C"llntmJl\ee, tells an MLA that the ch1ef .

tlltll'!'>ter :::hould ask the Speaker to od-i·urn the 1~ouse as Ram sevakshad been .

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