[Reader-list] Modi govt orders study of Gujarat population

[anupam chakravartty]

*Modi govt orders study of Gujarat population to ‘stop polarisation’*

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Modi-govt-orders-study-of-Gujarat-population-to---stop-polarisation-/484867

"The panel, headed by retired Justice B J Sethna, will assess the total area
in square metres occupied by people of different religious faiths as on
August 15, 1947, and the patterns of “polarisation of population” and
migration every 10 years thereafter.

 The survey is expected to identify the areas — their names and sizes —
where people of different religions live, or have shifted to."
*Gujarat Govt’s demography study a communal agenda, say activists*

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gujarat-govts-demography-study-a-communal-agenda-say-activists/485238/1
"Another
senior Gujarat HC advocate Mukul Sinha said it to be “political hypocrisy”.
“Those who engineered polarisation now want a debate on it. If the
government is sensitive to the problem of minorities, why it is not
providing basic civic amenities in Juhapura, the biggest Muslim ghetto in
Gujarat with no road, drainage and drinking water supply,” said Sinha. He
also questioned the appointment of Justice B J Sethna (retd) as the
commission’s chairman.

 “The choice of judge is very inappropriate because he had been involved in
several controversies in the past,” he said. The Supreme Court had reversed
his judgment in the Best Bakery case and ordered fresh trial."