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The reports findings were presented to the government of Maharashtra on February 16, 1998, more than five years after the riots took place. The report determined that the riots were the result of a deliberate and systematic effort to incite violence against Muslims and singled out Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray and Chief Minister Manohar Joshi as responsible. The Shiv Sena-BJP government, however, refused to adopt the commission's recommendations and instead labeled the report anti-Hindu.
18: According to Hemchandra Gupte, a former confidante of Thackeray, his major reason for leaving the party for his growing disgust with the prominence of money and the "goonda'ization" of the party (interview, 5th October 1992). 21. Interview, 3 October 1992, with Hemchandra Gupte, physician, formerly Bal Thackeray's family doctor, and Shiv Sena's mayor of Bombay from 1971 to 1972. Dr. Gupte left Shiv Sena in 1976 because of Thackerey's support for Mrs. Gandhi and the emergency.
The Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Maharashtra has rejected the core of the report, which was presented before the two Houses of the legislature on August 6 along with a memorandum of action to be taken thereon. The Action Taken Report (ATR), seeks to establish that the report is one-sided. Going further, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi termed the report "anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim and biased."
The Maha Sangh's meeting at Chowpatty on April 21 was billed as a gathering to obtain the blessings of the Shankaracharya of Sringeri. But Thackeray used the opportunity to deliver a highly-inflammatory speech. By his own admission he used the derogatory Marathi term of 'Landiya' to describe Muslims, and declared that they were spreading like cancer and should be operated upon like a cancer. The country, he said, should be saved from the Muslims and the police should support them (the Maha Sangh) in their struggle just like the police in Punjab were sympathetic to the Khalistanis.
The Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Maharashtra has rejected the core of the report, which was presented before the two Houses of the legislature on August 6 along with a memorandum of action to be taken thereon. The Action Taken Report (ATR), seeks to establish that the report is one-sided. Going further, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi termed the report "anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim and biased."
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link){{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link){{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)The Maha Sangh's meeting at Chowpatty on April 21 was billed as a gathering to obtain the blessings of the Shankaracharya of Sringeri. But Thackeray used the opportunity to deliver a highly-inflammatory speech. By his own admission he used the derogatory Marathi term of 'Landiya' to describe Muslims, and declared that they were spreading like cancer and should be operated upon like a cancer. The country, he said, should be saved from the Muslims and the police should support them (the Maha Sangh) in their struggle just like the police in Punjab were sympathetic to the Khalistanis.