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Staff Reporter | New Delhi
ZARA YAAD KARO QURBANI December 13, 2001
Terrorists like Afzal Guru should be shot at the time of arrest and time should not be wasted in long court proceedings if the Government wants to finish terrorism in the country," All India Anti Terrorist Front chairman MS Bitta said.Â
The nearly 1,000 persons gathered in Vigyan Bhawan on Friday to pay tributes to the victims of the triple blasts in Delhi on October 29, 2005 and Parliament attack case December 13, 2001 obviously agreed with this statement.
The front had organised an Anti-Terrorism Day for the adoption of the children orphaned in the aftermath of these blasts and providing financial aid for their career.
Among those who attended were BJP leader and former Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha, Shalini Dewan of UNIC, Manoj Raghuvanshi, a senior journalist, and some members of the UN security agencies and the Russian embassy. Families of victims of the Sarojini Nagar, Paharganj and Govindpuri blasts and Parliament attack were also present.
Cheques of Rs 1 lakh each were given to Manisha Michael (10), Keerti Mehra (9), and Ishika Sant (3), who lost their guardians during last year's Diwali blasts. Two other persons who received similar amounts were Vinod Poddar, who lost his right leg in the blast, and Kuldeep Singh, the DTC driver who saved many lives on that day and lost his eyes. The latter was also awarded the brave man award.
All these persons and other victims were given a memento and a shawl by the front. Every member in the hall was carrying a tricolour and joined little Manisha Michael, who sang the Aye mere Watan ke logo in her innocent voice.
<b>The guests on the dais were critical of the Government and all those politicians who favoured clemency for Afzal Guru. Manoj Raghuvanshi and Bihari Babu Shatrughan Sinha said that India needs crores of MS Bittas who are standing against terrorism like a wall.</b>
<b>"I am not in favour of killing anybody but fast track courts should be formed to try terrorist cases so that blast cases like Mumbai 1993 blasts that have taken more than 13 years in trial should not make our judiciary weak," said Shatrughan Sinha </b>in his speech.
Apologising on behalf of the whole media, Manoj Raghuvanshi said,<b> "We had given wrong information to the people that Delhi was targeted on the eve of Diwali or Eid but actually if we see the timings of the blast, which was 5.38 pm, it was one minute after the Iftar starts."</b>
On this, a person remarked that Raghuvanshi was targeting Muslims, creating a tense atmosphere in the hall for a few minutes. The gathering left the hall after singing the national anthem and remembering all the martyrs.
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Staff Reporter | New Delhi
ZARA YAAD KARO QURBANI December 13, 2001
Terrorists like Afzal Guru should be shot at the time of arrest and time should not be wasted in long court proceedings if the Government wants to finish terrorism in the country," All India Anti Terrorist Front chairman MS Bitta said.Â
The nearly 1,000 persons gathered in Vigyan Bhawan on Friday to pay tributes to the victims of the triple blasts in Delhi on October 29, 2005 and Parliament attack case December 13, 2001 obviously agreed with this statement.
The front had organised an Anti-Terrorism Day for the adoption of the children orphaned in the aftermath of these blasts and providing financial aid for their career.
Among those who attended were BJP leader and former Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha, Shalini Dewan of UNIC, Manoj Raghuvanshi, a senior journalist, and some members of the UN security agencies and the Russian embassy. Families of victims of the Sarojini Nagar, Paharganj and Govindpuri blasts and Parliament attack were also present.
Cheques of Rs 1 lakh each were given to Manisha Michael (10), Keerti Mehra (9), and Ishika Sant (3), who lost their guardians during last year's Diwali blasts. Two other persons who received similar amounts were Vinod Poddar, who lost his right leg in the blast, and Kuldeep Singh, the DTC driver who saved many lives on that day and lost his eyes. The latter was also awarded the brave man award.
All these persons and other victims were given a memento and a shawl by the front. Every member in the hall was carrying a tricolour and joined little Manisha Michael, who sang the Aye mere Watan ke logo in her innocent voice.
<b>The guests on the dais were critical of the Government and all those politicians who favoured clemency for Afzal Guru. Manoj Raghuvanshi and Bihari Babu Shatrughan Sinha said that India needs crores of MS Bittas who are standing against terrorism like a wall.</b>
<b>"I am not in favour of killing anybody but fast track courts should be formed to try terrorist cases so that blast cases like Mumbai 1993 blasts that have taken more than 13 years in trial should not make our judiciary weak," said Shatrughan Sinha </b>in his speech.
Apologising on behalf of the whole media, Manoj Raghuvanshi said,<b> "We had given wrong information to the people that Delhi was targeted on the eve of Diwali or Eid but actually if we see the timings of the blast, which was 5.38 pm, it was one minute after the Iftar starts."</b>
On this, a person remarked that Raghuvanshi was targeting Muslims, creating a tense atmosphere in the hall for a few minutes. The gathering left the hall after singing the national anthem and remembering all the martyrs.
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