India: Information on the ideological base of the BJP party and its relations with the ruling Congress party, a meeting of BJP supporters on November 1988, the Gujarat state educational reservation policy and consequences of return of refugee claimants
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 April 1989 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | IND0655 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, India: Information on the ideological base of the BJP party and its relations with the ruling Congress party, a meeting of BJP supporters on November 1988, the Gujarat state educational reservation policy and consequences of return of refugee claimants, 1 April 1989, IND0655, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aba988.html [accessed 19 May 2023] |
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Attached are copies of documents referring to the above mentioned subjects. Regarding the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and rallies, strikes or other movements related to it which took place in November 1988, copies of the following documents available at present at the IRBDC, Ottawa, are included:
-"A New Confidence" and "We will not be used by V.P. Singh", in India Today, 15 February 1989, pp. 48-53.
-"Strike Called in Jammu, Punjab", in South Asia Daily Report, 2 November 1988, p. 61.
Regarding the Gujarat educational reservation policy devised to provide more access to education to different castes, and the consequences of its announcement, the following documents are attached:
-"Anti-reservation campaign in Gujarat" and "Agreement on temporary cancellation of reservation increases", in Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume XXXII (32), pp. 34173-34174.
-"Reservation Policy: The Caste Crunch", in India Today, 15 April 1985, pp. 52-61.
-"A plunge into anarchy", "Calendar of violence" and "Cost of poll promises", in The Week (India), 5-11 May 1985, pp. 16-24.
-"Gujarat: State of Siege", "Reservation: Loaded Views", "Khadia: Tinder Box" and "Madhavasinh Solanki: I'm confident I'll stay on", in India Today, 15 May 1985, pp. 58-71.
-"Gujarat: reserved for trouble", in Frontline (India), 4-17 May 1988, pp. 12-17.
-"Gujarat: Continuing Violence", in India Today, 31 May 1985, p. 74 (only page available).
Regarding repatriation of those claiming refugee status abroad, attached are the copies of related sections of the U.S Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988 (U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1989, pp. 1328-1337), page 80 of The Right to Leave and Return in International Law and Practice (by Hurst Hannum, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987), and news clippings related to the publicized case of a young sikh refugee claimant returned to India early this year, which include:
-"Amnesty fears for safety of man returned to India", in The Globe and Mail, 18 January 1989, p. A4.
-"Deported Sikh questioned, released", in The Montreal Gazette, 18 January 1989, p. 2.
