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Gujarat experiment

Sir, — What is the "Gujarat experiment"? Everyone knows that it is fomenting anti-Muslim hatred. Their property is set ablaze. Police actively participate in all such gruesome deeds and thousands of Muslims are forced to flee their homes and hearths and become refugees in their own land.

A.U. Muneeb,
Hyderabad

Sir, — This is with reference to K.K. Katyal's article "The turbulence ahead" (Dec. 30). With the BJP president, Venkaiah Naidu, already declaring that his party will replicate the "Gujarat experiment" in the rest of the country, turbulence and turmoil lie ahead. The failure of the secular forces, mainly attributed to the the "soft Hindutva" stance adopted by the Congress, led to their defeat in Gujarat. In fact, the decline of the Congress gave a fresh lease of life to the communal forces. So, it is the hour of self-introspection for the Congress and it should set right its organisation.

B. Chandra Kala,
Hyderabad

Sir, — Unable to digest the bitter pill of the Gujarat verdict, the Congress leaders are crying hoarse that secularism is in danger in the State. The will of the people is supreme in a democracy and one should honour it. Instead of accepting the defeat with all humility and undertaking a genuine exercise in introspection, the party chose to belittle the people's will.

Arind D. Tapkire,
Mumbai

Sir, — This is with reference to the picture (Dec. 27) showing four men being taken to jail in a cage on the charge of killing peacocks in Ludhiana. Criminals are human and they cannot be treated as animals. No doubt, they were being punished even before their conviction.

G. Azeemoddin,
Bangalore

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