All's Not Well with the Proposed Communal Violence Bill: A critique and ammendments from secular activists

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Anhad
23, Canning Lane, New Delhi—110001, Tel.: 23070740/22

26 June 2010

While one wing of the government engaged the activists in negotiations on Communal Violence Bill (CV Bill) the other leaked out to the media that all the concerns have been incorporated in the CV Bill. It looked from the press reports on June 25 and 26, 2010 that a wonderful CV Bill is about to be passed. These are lies and unethical politics. Most of the civil society’s non negotiables are yet to be incorporated in the proposed CV Bill. Please see below the news reports of an urgent press conference that we held today. The Home Ministry is unaware of the extent of communal virus that has seeped at the ground level and it is no longer confined to Gujarat.

We are releasing to the media amendments submitted to NAC sub group on the proposed Communal Violence Bill [see PDF File enclosed below]

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